Porcine Health Management

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...

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...

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.

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...

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) remains one of the most wide-spread and economically devastating disease in swine industry, characterized by reproductive losses in breeding herds, as well as respiratory disorders and a prolonged...

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) remains one of the most widespread, and economically devastating disease in swine industry. lt is characterized by reproductive losses in breeding herds, increased mortality in newborns and respiratory...

Swine influenza A virus (swIAV) is a major respiratory pathogen frequently circulating after weaning, a period commonly used to implement PRRS MLV vaccination in piglets. SwIAV infection was previously shown to induce a strong IFNα response. A recent...

Trueperella pyogenes is an opportunistic pathogen responsible for different clinical manifestations in livestock animals, being especially important in swine, in which is causes suppurative infections (abscesses, pneumonia, arthritis, endocarditis or...

Controlling enzootic pneumonia (caused by Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and other co-infections) remains a challenge in current commercial farms worldwide, although vaccines have demonstrated their effectiveness in reducing clinical signs and lung lesions.

Clostridium perfringens type C and E. coli play an important role in the prevalence of diarrhea during the farrowing and nursery phase respectively, resulting in growth retardation, mortality and an increase of antimicrobial treatments in piglets....

PRRS is globally one of the most economically devastating diseases in modern swine industry. It creates mainly reproductive and respiratory problems and is hard to control with modified live virus (MLV) vaccines alone.Hungary started in March 2014 with a...

In a recent study, we assessed the immune responses of different innovative Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae bacterins. The aim of this experimental study was to assess the efficacy of three of these experimental bacterin formulations, which differed in their...

Porcine proliferative enteropathy (PPE; ileitis) is a common intestinal disease affecting susceptible pigs raised under various management systems around the world. The causative agent of PPE is Lawsonia intracellularis and is considered endemic. PPE can...

The intradermal route for administration of swine vaccines is increasingly used. It offers the advantages of a direct approach to stimulate immunity resulting in the possibility to implement a humoral, cellular and mucosal immune response. Pressure...

Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) is known to be related to follicle and oocyte development in sows. We hypothesized that a higher IGF-1 level at weaning may derive better luteal development during early pregnancy in primiparous sows.