Porcine Health Management

Streptococcus suis is an important zoonotic agent with an impact on pig and public health as well as the economy of the swine industry. Common signs of infection in pigs are meningitis, arthritis, endocarditis, and pneumonia.

Mycoplasma hyorhinis (MHR), a commensal found in the upper respiratory tract of pigs, is on the other hand also associated with respiratory disease, polyserositis and lameness in affected animals. Herd-specific vaccines are frequently successfully used....

PCVD and Enzootic pneumonia remain two of major economically most important diseases in pig farms. Vaccination against PCV2 and Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M.hyo) helps to reduce clinical manifestation of those infections and corresponding losses. Several...

The aim of this survey was to describe the prevalence of Mhyo and infection patterns in farms from Spain, France and Denmark. A special attention was paid to the early infections in young piglets at- and early after weaning. At the same time the...

Edema Disease (ED) is an enterotoxaemia caused by certain Escherichia coli’s colonizing the small intestine and producing verotoxin (VT2e). This entertoxaemia might result in acute mortality, nervous symptoms, respiratory distress and growth...

Several pathogens can induce pre-weaning diarrhea. E.coli,Clostridia and Rota virus have the highest prevalence. Hygiene and colostrum intake are very important for prevention besides effective vaccination of sows. The legal cascade rule opens the...

To further reduce and refine the use of antibiotics in livestock, monitoring of antibiotic resistance (ABR) of veterinary pathogens is of utmost importance. Therefore a project is running to develop a nationwide, representative, reliable system for...

Commercial vaccines against M. hyopneumoniae (Mhyo) are bacterins based on different strains. Although proteomic variability among Mhyo strains has been described, comparison between the strains used in bacterins has not been performed. Therefore, this...

Brachyspira pilosicoli is the etiologic agent of porcine colonic spirochetosis, a diarrheal disease in growing pigs. Colitis associated with Brachyspira pilosicoli is less severe than swine dysentery caused by Brachyspira hyodysenteriae, however,...

Slaughter house lung scoring is effective way for assessment of respiratory health and efficiency of control programs on swine farms including the estimation of economic impact of respiratory infections on production. Ceva Lung program (CLP) is...

Examination of lungs at slaughter can be an efficient tool to monitor incidence and severity of respiratory diseases. Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M.hyo), as primary pathogen of porcine enzootic pneumonia (EP), is associated with cranio-ventral pulmonary...

Klebsiella pneumoniae subspecies pneumonia (Kpp) outbreaks, causing septicemia in neonatal piglets, have previously been reported in England and Australia. In the Netherlands, the first Kpp outbreak, with comparable clinical findings, was confirmed by...

Streptococcus suis is an important pig pathogen and a serious professional zoonosis. The control of this disease should focus on the correct use of traditional antimicrobials, as well as new alternatives such as the use of natural products, including oils...

Lung lesion scoring is a useful tool to evaluate the importance of the respiratory disease in swine farms, being bronchopneumonia (BP) and dorsocaudal pleurisy (DCP) amongst the most frequent/relevant lesions observed. Although these lesions are not...

Brachyspira infections are causing major losses to the pig sector and lead to high antimicrobial use. The present study aimed to implement and evaluate farm-specific elimination programs for B. hyodysenteriae in different infected pig farms.