Steven McOrist

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Steven McOrist graduated as a veterinary surgeon and worked at diagnostic laboratories for farm animals in Australia, then he transferred to a PhD in the U.K. and continued as the senior researcher and team leader in the pig ileitis program. This team was the first to successfully culture the aetiological agent, to name the causative agent Lawsonia intracellularis, the first to fulfill Koch’s postulates. He later served as the director of veterinary and technical services for the Asian-Australian agribusiness group, QAF (Bunge) Industries, focusing on swine production. He has worked in academia with Associate Professorship roles in the USA and UK, where he taught microbiology, enteric diseases and swine medicine. He returned to full-time pig and consultancy work in Asia-Pacific, based in Hong Kong and Melbourne. He performs technical management roles and consultancies with Australian, Chinese, Filipino and European pig agribusiness groups. He has published extensively on pig diseases, including guidebooks on pig diseases and the standard textbook, Diseases of Swine.

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17-Feb-2022rtomixThanks Lachlan for the valueable infos, exciting topic.
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The autopsy of ETEC diarrhoea cases usually shows dilated, congested thin small intestine loops filled with the watery yellow diarrhoea

Escherichia coli infections in pigs (2 of 2)

Post-weaning colibacillosis and oedema disease are common global infection among farmed pigs – these strains of E coli appear to be "embedded" in most pig farms, so elimination is not a current option. Vaccination of sows or gilts with ETEC vaccines has no effect on post-weaning E. coli infections.

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29-Jan-2015Kyla_cloudvery informative.
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25-Nov-2014 noel o sullivanconcise !
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22-Aug-2014Tancap1My farm is occuring pcv2.How can i control the disease?I already vaccination circo(Circumvent 1 shot 2cc)
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01-Aug-2012Lulugood article!interesting
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