Porcine Health Management

Currently, the generation of knowledge and implementation of biosecurity on farms is essential in pig production. The development of tools to identify where to focus efforts for improving biosecurity and objectively compare the level of biosecurity among farms is an important component. The aim of this study was to evaluate the external biosecurity of pig farms in Argentina by adapting a previously developed tool (Allepuz et al. 2017). It was applied in the context of a hypothetical porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) outbreak were PED herd prevalence was obtained from Beam et al. (2015).

High intramuscular (IM) fat content and backfat depth are important requirements for pigs
destined for high-quality cured products (HQCP). Those pigs are commonly slaughtered at heavy
live-weights; therefore need to be castrated to avoid boar taint and unacceptable male behaviour

Introduction The development of data mining and time series analyses allows extracting information of the health swine population at almost real time from non-specific data. In the North-Eastern Spain, the Grup de Sanejament Porcí (GSP) implemented an...

Introduction Oral fluids (OF) are a convenient surveillance sample because they are easily collected and tested for nucleic acids and/or antibodies for PRRSV and a variety of pathogens. However, sampling guidelines for OF are not readily available. The...

Introduction: Biosecurity procedures impact diseases such as PRRS, but applying and following biosecurity rules is often difficult. B-eSecure is an electronic system that besides external biosecurity, tracks and reports correct and wrong movements of...

Introduction Early detection of clinical respiratory disease in growing pigs can improve productivity and profitability by enabling earlier more effective treatment. Clinical disease detection is typically the direct responsibility of farm workers, and...

Introduction: Congenital-tremors (CT) type A-II outbreaks occur in new born piglets. CT-APPV was identified by next generation sequencing platform VIDISCA and proven as causative agent in an infection trial. This study describes technical and economic...

Introduction The robustness of piglets at weaning can be seen as ability to express optimal growth performances without health problems whatever weaning conditions. In this study, we approached piglet robustness at weaning through growth performances...

Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (Mhp) diagnostic tools, such as Multiple Locus Variable number tandem repeat Analysis (MLVA) and P146 sequencing have been used to characterize this microorganism at the molecular level. Multiple variants have been identified by MLVA; however, the extent of genetic variability within production stages in swine flows has not been evaluated. The objective of this study was to assess the genetic variability of Mhp within swine production flows in USA.