Porcine Health Management

Antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals is nowadays a major threat for food security and public health worldwide. Antibiotic consumption in pig production is higher in the intensive production system than in the extensive and organic ones, what...

Defined Daily Doses (DDD) and Defined Course Doses (DCD) have been established in both human and veterinary medicine in order to standardize the measurement of treatments in a population. In 2016 the European Medicines Agency published average defined...

Fungi and their derivatives may play a role to reduce antimicrobial use in swine diets because of their antimicrobial and immunomodulatory properties and their ability to degrade substrate into bioactive compounds. In this research, copra meal,...

Prudent use of antimicrobials in livestock production is of relevance to prevent the selection for antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Antimicrobial use (AMU) in pig production, differs per country in Europe. To set up a practical on farm approach to reduce...

In 2015, the first cases of septicaemia and sudden death in 2-3 week old suckling piglets, resulting from Klebsiella pneumoniae subspecies pneumonia (KPP) infection, were found in the Netherlands. KPP is in human medicine notorious for carbapenemase...

In 2015 a novel porcine circovirus (PCV), named as PCV-3, was found by next generation sequencing methods from animals with different disease conditions. Although its pathogenicity has not been clearly established yet, it has been linked with reproductive...

In Europe, the most widespread method for controlling influenza A virus infections in piglets is implementation of sow vaccination programs to secure delivery of maternal derived antibodies to the new born piglets. However, recent studies have questioned...

In pig herds, PRRSV is often associated with PCV2, this co-infection being one key factor leading to post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS). Worryingly, association of a PRRSV modified live vaccine of Type 2 (MLV2) with PCV2 infection was also...

An episode of congenital tremor (CT) with concurrent increase in piglet deformities in a breeding herd was investigated.

PRRSV causes the most significant swine disease worldwide and shows remarkable genetic variation. PRRSV genotyping is being performed mostly based on ORF5 and/or ORF7 sequence analysis. Recent papers indicate that recombination between PRRS viruses may...

The concept of Resilience is used to define the ability of animals to overcome internal and external stressors, such as pathogen challenges. In pigs, a number of genetic markers have been studied in relation to the response to infection with the porcine...

This case study reports a transmissible gastroenteritis coronavirus (TGEV) infection in newborn piglets of a commercial pig herd, including histopathological examinations in affected piglets.

Quantitative measuring of PCV2 in serum samples is the golden method for monitoring PCV2 infections in growing and finishing pigs. However, over the last years, oral fluid (OF) sampling has gained more attention since it´s less invasive and more animals...

Since its introduction in the Netherlands in 1991 PRRSv still causes clinical outbreaks and subsequent economic damage on swine farms. In this study a description is given of farm characteristics, clinical picture and sequence results of the found PRRSv...

PRRS is a viral disease that has a big impact on cost of swine production, animal health and welfare. Although Topigs Norsvin Nucleus herds are free from PRRS, conventional breeding herds of Topigs Norsvin Netherlands are producing and distributing...