Porcine Health Management

Antibiotic resistance has become a major public concern and reducing antibiotic usage is important. Nevertheless it is crucial to treat diseased pigs due to welfare reasons and to prevent spreading of diseases. For the treatment of larger groups of pigs...

Persistent Salmonella Typhimurium (ST) infections in pigs are characterized by chronic colonization of the lymphoid tissue and constitute a major source of human salmonellosis. The present study investigated to which extent different vaccination...

Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite that cause enteric disease in vertebrates, including the pig. Infected pigs may develop diarrhoea, anorexia and reduced growth rates, although most are asymptomatic. Previous knowledge on the occurrence of...

In the pig husbandry, antibiotics are still used to prevent and control infections. Bacterial infections are often related to E.coli and Salmonella infections; within those groups, also many multi-resistant pathogens are present.  To further reduce the...

We need to find effective tools for disease prevention in animal production, and evaluate farms’ disease status to ensure animal welfare and public health. Moreover, there is need to reduce antimicrobial usage (AMU) because of increasing emergence of...

In Organic pig farms pigs are often exposed to various pathogenic agents that can cause important health problems. Aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of Toxoplasma (T.) gondii in organic fattening farms, to identify the risk factors and to...

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a leading causative agent of acute viral hepatitis in humans. In Europe, people are infected predominantly with HEV genotype 3, which has zoonotic potential. The main route of infection is through ingestion of contaminated pork....

Trueperella pyogenes infections in pigs have recently become an increasing clinical and epidemiological problem, which reflects in the rising number of condemnations by lymphadenitis in slaughterhouse. The objective of this work was to determine the...

Fluorchinolones are classified by the WHO as highest priority critically important antimicrobials in human medicine. Therefore their use in veterinary medicine should be limited. As fluorchinolones are little metabolised in animals and excreted in feaces...

Boar taint is primarily caused by accumulation of androstenone and skatole in the adipose tissue from male pigs. Androstenone production is closely linked to gonadal steroids, mainly testosterone. The aim of the present study was to compare androstenone...

Previously we demonstrated the success of a voluntary approach to antimicrobial use monitoring amongst Canadian pig producers, based on collection of antimicrobial sales data from veterinarian and feed supplier. The current study demonstrates changes...

Mucosal vaccines, specifically autogenous vaccines, offer a new method of immunization against PRRSV; however, intranasal vaccination of sows represents an obstacle for producers. Therefore, this study evaluated the clinical safety of a mucosal PRRSv...

Pigs commonly are vaccinated at weaning and often treated with long-acting antibiotics. Some antibiotics were shown to impair responses to vaccination. The objective was to investigate the influence of long-acting antibiotics on antibody and immune cell...

Suvaxyn PRRS MLV is approved for mass vaccination of swine herds every 4 months. The efficacy of the booster vaccination should be at least equivalent to that of the administration of a single dose. The objective of the study was to demonstrate the...

Suvaxyn PRRS MLV is the first vaccine licensed in Europe which can be used in 1-day-old pigs. Since the vaccine is intended to be used in a single dose vaccination schedule, it is crucial to ensure protection of the animals from vaccination to slaughter. ...