Porcine Health Management

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...

IntroductionNeonatal diarrhoea represents a major disease problem in the early stages of animal production, increasing significantly pre-weaning mortality and piglets weaned below the target weight. Enteric diseases in new-born piglets are often of...

Introduction: There are multiple reasons for increase in irregular return to estrus rate in sows, most of them of non-infectious origin. Chlamydia spp. infections are known to lead to infertility, but getting a clear diagnosis of a chlamydiosis is...

Introduction Alternative, especially preventive measures have to be implemented to reduce the need for antimicrobial treatments. An intervention study showed that farms with higher compliance with intervention plans tended to achieve bigger reduction....

Introduction Highly virulent PRRSV strains causing severe disease have been reported in Europe, Asia and North America, associated with high fever, anorexia, severe lung lesions and high mortality. The aim of this study was to characterise the impact of...

Introduction   PRRSv control protocol depends on infection dynamics in swine herds. Assessing stability in breeding herds is a main issue. The aim of this study was to compare the ability of three types of samples to detect PRRSv in pre-weaning...

Introduction: This study evaluated survival of important viral pathogens of swine or their surrogates in contaminated feed ingredients during simulated transboundary transportation.  Based on global significance, 11 viruses were selected, including Foot...

Influenza A virus infections causing economic losses are widely spread among swine populations worldwide. In Europe, over the past decades, four lineages of reassortant viruses between avian and human viruses have formed (H1N1av, H1N2hu, H3N2,...

Introduction In a Dutch endemic PRRSV infected sow herd – 1000 sows and weaners – in periodic PCR monitoring in non PRRS vaccinated piglets PRRSV was shown, ORF5 99% homologous to the vaccine strain used before. Possible infection routes were...

Colostrum is essential for piglet survival and growth, providing the piglets with a source for immunoglobulin and energy. This study examined whether tail oil fatty acid and resin acid (PRO) added to a late pregnancy diet affect colostrum composition,...

IntroductionThe anaerobic intestinal spirochaete Brachyspira (B.) suanatina was first described in 2007 in Scandinavia and swine dysentery like disease was attributed to the isolates investigated. However, since then no further isolates have been reported...

Introduction. The passive transfer of PCV2-specific cells through colostrum to the offspring has hardly been investigated. In consequence, this study was aimed to evaluate the effect of Porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2) sow vaccination on humoral and...