Porcine Health Management

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Immunology and Vaccinology

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Sows and piglets vaccination against PCV2 with Circovac® in a case of early PRRSv infection

The efficacy of vaccines may be compromised when piglets are vaccinated at the same time that a PRRS infection occurs. CIRCOVAC® is a PCV2 vaccine registered in sows and piglets. Vaccination in sows and piglets has been shown to be an effective strategy...
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Abstract
Year
2019
Topic
Immunology and Vaccinology
Affiliation
Ceva Salud Animal, Barcelona, Spain

Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (Mhyo) seroconversion study in a low-level MDA farm due to a bivalent vaccine combining PCV2 and Mhyo

Mhyo is an important pathogen worldwide distributed and responsible for retarded growing, mainly in the finishing period. Use of bivalent vaccines to control of Porcine Circovirus type 2 (PCV2) and Mhyo is very extensive due to management convenience and...
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Abstract
Year
2019
Topic
Immunology and Vaccinology
Affiliation
MSD Animal Health

Safety of Porcilis® Ery+Parvo+Lepto vaccine at farm level

Use of vaccines with various agents is widely accepted for effectiveness and management convenience. Until now, vaccines containing Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae and Parvovirus in combination are extremely used. Some studies have showed growing...
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Abstract
Year
2019
Topic
Immunology and Vaccinology
Affiliation
MSD Animal Health

Efficacy of Porcilis® Glasser in the control of Haemophilus parasuis infection at farm level

Haemophilus parasuis (HPS), present worldwide, is an important agent in porcine pathology, causing Glässer´s Disease (GD), responsible of direct losses due to mortality of growing piglets and indirect ones due to reduction of growth and increase of...
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Abstract
Year
2019
Topic
Immunology and Vaccinology
Affiliation
MSD Animal Health

Seroconversion study of Porcilis® Glasser at farm level

Haemophilus parasuis (HPS): important agent worldwide distributed, responsible of Glässer´s Disease (GD). Sometimes it shows up as asymptomatic but depending on the strain virulence it can appear as an aggressive agent. The aim of this study was to...
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Abstract
Year
2019
Topic
Immunology and Vaccinology
Affiliation
MSD Animal Health

Neutralizing antibodies against PRRS virus in breeding pigs vaccinated with the combined administration of UNISTRAIN® PRRS and ERYSENG® PARVO

The combined administration of UNISTRAIN® PRRS (UP), PRRS MLV vaccine, and ERYSENG® PARVO (EP), inactivated Porcine Parvovirus and Swine Erysipelas, is licensed. PRRSV generates an immune response characterized by weak and delayed production of...
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Abstract
Year
2019
Topic
Immunology and Vaccinology
Affiliation
HIPRA

Comparative study to evaluate immunity induced by Actinobacillus pleuroneumoniae vaccines

Pleuropneumonia is a word-wide disease causing substantial economic loss to the swine industry. The disease is characterized by hemorrhagic, fibrinous and necrotic lung lesions. The most accepted control measure for this disease is the generation of...
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Abstract
Year
2019
Topic
Immunology and Vaccinology
Affiliation
MSD Animal Health

Weaning did not affect the serological response to intradermal PCV2 vaccination in piglets

The objective of this study was to investigate how timing of intradermal PCV2 vaccination affected the serologic response of piglets. We aimed to evaluate if the serologic response differed for Study A: vaccination before compared to at weaning and Study...
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Abstract
Year
2019
Topic
Immunology and Vaccinology
Affiliation
University of Helsinki;Department of Veterinary Biosciences

How to coach the swine farmers to omit antibiotic treatment in piglets vaccinated against post-weaning diarrhea: the example of the fecal scorecard

Post-weaning Escherichia coli diarrhea (PWD) caused by enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) remains a major cause of economic losses for the pig industry and provokes mild to severe watery diarrhea. Coliprotec® F4/F18, an oral live bivalent vaccine is now...
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Abstract
Year
2019
Topic
Immunology and Vaccinology
Affiliation
BU Food Animals, Elanco Animal Health Benelux

Efficacy of Coliprotec® F4/F18 in piglets with post-weaning diarrhea due to F18-ETEC in a commercial Italian farm

Post-weaning diarrhea (PWD), mainly caused by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), remains a major cause of economic losses for the pig industry. Coliprotec®F4/F18 is a live oral vaccine for active immunization of pigs against PWD caused by F4-ETEC...
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Abstract
Year
2019
Topic
Immunology and Vaccinology
Affiliation
Elanco Italia Spa

Characterization of macrophage population of the thymus in pigs after infection with PRRSV strains of different in vivo virulence

The emergence of the so-called highly pathogenic isolates of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (HP-PRRSV) has raised new concerns about the control of the disease. Cells from the porcine monocyte-macrophage lineage represent the target for...
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Abstract
Year
2019
Topic
Immunology and Vaccinology
Affiliation
Department of Anatomy and Comparative Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cordoba, Spain

Effect of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae vaccination time after birth and vaccine delivery method (intramuscular vs. intradermal) on the extent of antibody...

The rationale and improvement of vaccination schedules and vaccine administration has been studied to find the most efficient conditions to let piglet immunity properly develop despite the interference of maternal immunity. These conditions primarily...
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Abstract
Year
2019
Topic
Immunology and Vaccinology
Affiliation
Department of Veterinary Science, University of Parma, Strada del Taglio, 10 – 43126, Parma, Italy

An antibody-derived killer peptide (KP) rapidly triggers porcine inflammatory monocytes, innate and adaptive T lymphocytes, together with Th1 cytokine...

An engineered killer peptide (KP), based on an anti-idiotypic antibody mimicking a yeast killer toxin, showed a wide-spectrum antimicrobial activity against fungi, viruses and parasites in humans and parasites in the dog and mouse. KP was demonstrated to...
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Abstract
Year
2019
Topic
Immunology and Vaccinology
Affiliation
Department of Veterinary Science, University of Parma, Strada del Taglio, 10 – 43126, Parma, Italy

Immune responses to vaccination of 1-day-old naïve pigs with a Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome-1 based modified live virus vaccine

The study assessed innate and adaptive immune responses to vaccination of 1 day-old pigs with a PRRSV-1 based MLV vaccine by IM and IN routes, challenged 18 weeks later with a heterologous PRRSV-1 isolate.
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Abstract
Year
2019
Topic
Immunology and Vaccinology
Affiliation
Zoetis

Vaccination of sows with a PRRS modified live attenuated vaccine demonstrates protection following a PRRSV challenge 26 weeks later

Depending on circumstances and objectives, PRRS vaccination in sows may be on a regular, whole herd basis or timed to the reproductive cycle of individual animals. Knowing the duration of immunity that can be expected from a vaccine can help...
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Abstract
Year
2019
Topic
Immunology and Vaccinology
Affiliation
Zoetis