Porcine Health Management

 A field study comparing the efficacy of Tylvalosin (Aivlosin® Water Soluble Granules (WSG), ECO Animal Health Ltd.) with doxycycline was carried out in a large finishing site in Romania for the control of mycoplasmal pneumonia. Material and methods ...

This paper describes a comparative field trial on a commercial unit in Denmark.  The pigs were born on a 1,200 farrow-to-nursery unit which supplied 750 weaners per week and had an associate finisher unit of around 3,000 places.  All units had been M...

A Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (Mhyo) elimination project was initiated in a unit that broke down when production began. The unit was located in a high-density area in Brittany and was equipped with a HEPA filtration system. The unit started filling up with...

A Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (Mhyo) elimination program is described in one 800-sow, 3-week batch outdoor unit which had been introducing Mhyo negative replacement stock. The unit was considered Mhyo negative; however, during slaughterhouse inspections...

App infections are sometimes not fully controlled by vaccination, medication or biosecurity.  Partial depopulation, combined with strategic treatment with tilmicosin (Tilmovet®, Huvepharma®) was initiated to eradicate App, restore performance and...

Vaccines have demonstrated their effectiveness against <i>Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae </i>in reducing clinical signs and lung lesions and improving productivity parameters. MATERIAL AND METHODS In total 3622 pigs were divided in three groups. Group A was...

The Oriental Cockroaches (Blatta orientalis) are important pest in swine production in recent years,  have long been investigated to assess the carry capacity for different swine pathogenic bacteria. They are known to carry about 57 species of pathogenic...

Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M.hyo) detection in a lung tissue sample is part of respiratory disease diagnostics. Different authors have quantified M.hyo in order to connect M.hyo load with lung lesion severity. Quantification was performed on small pieces...

Post-weaning diarrhoea (PWD) remains a major cause of economic losses for the pig industry due to mortality, morbidity, decreased growth rate and cost of medication. PWD typically causes mild to severe diarrhoea after weaning, which can be associated with...

Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (App) is responsible for significant economic losses in worldwide pig production. Peracute cases of sudden deaths, severe hemorrhagic and necrotizing or fibrinous pleuropneumnonia and decreased performance during...

Haemophilus (H.) parasuis can be a commensal in the upper respiratory tract or a facultative infectious agent. Typical pathological findings are characterized by fibrinous inflammation. Glässer’s disease, has to be distinguished from solitary...

Enzootic pneumonia (EP), primarily caused by Mycoplasma  hyopneumoniae (Mhp), is costly to the pig industry. In EP-like lesions, M. hyorhinis (Mhr) and M. flocculare (Mfloc) are also identified. The aims of this study were to assess (i) the frequency of...

Reliable data on the worldwide presence of verotoxigenic strains of Escherichia coli (VTEC) producing verotoxin-2e (Vt2e) could explain the overall prevalence of swine oedema which causes a deleterious economic impact in the swine industry. Therefore, a...

Staphylococcus hyicus occurs on the skin on healthy pigs, but may also be involved in infections like exudative epidermitis. Information on antibiotic susceptibility in S. hyicus from Swedish pigs is scarce. In this study, susceptibility of S. hyicus from...

Enzootic pneumonia (EP) caused by Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M.hyo) remains one of the most important respiratory infections in current swine production with significant economical impact. High M. hyo prevalence was reported recently in Russia based on...