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The whole litter of piglets is trembling and shacking. What is the cause of this condition?

A carcass is split in half and an abscess is found in the spine and burst. What is the cause of this lesion?

This animal showed respiratory problems. What can be the cause of these lung lesions?

This lesion was found after the animal showed recurrent transient fever. Which are the possible causes?

Which is the most probable cause for the deformation of this ear?

Which parasite is the culprit for these liver lesions?

A sow is found with skin lacerations in the pen. What is the cause of this condition?

A number of finishing pigs have ulcerative pododermatitis on the lateral side of their feet which causes lameness. What is the cause of this lesion?

Some gilts and sows have died suddenly during the last few months with no apparent clinical signs of disease. There is haemoperitoneum and splecnomegalia at post-mortem examination. What is the cause of mortality?

Some finishing pigs are found with swelling of the tails with blood. What is the cause of it?

A piglet is born alive with 6 legs. What is the cause of this finding?

Cranioventral lung consolidation is detected at post-mortem examination of the lungs of pigs with persistent coughing associated with lack of appetite. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

There is an outbreak of sudden deaths of 6 weeks old pigs. At post-mortem examination the pericardial sac is distended with straw-coloured fluid that contains fibrin strands. The heart has areas of necrosis. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

Twenty gilts are found dead in the same building with cyanosis of the lower parts of the body and salivation. What is the cause of dead?

A lactating sow is found with widespread raised rhomboid lesions on the skin. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

An outbreak of sudden deaths and coughing is detected in 10 weeks old pigs. Post-mortem examination detects necrotizing pneumonia with fibrinopurulent exudate of the peritoneal and thoracic cavities. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

This sow had poor body condition, was anaemic and was found dead in the pen. The stomach had a dark black content inside. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

Bulging irregular masses detected in the oral mucosa of the lower lip in a 2 weeks old piglet. What is the most likely cause of this condition?

Dead pigs with cyanotic ears and lower and distal parts of the body are found in one room of a flat deck accommodation. Some pigs are alive but dope. What is the cause of this condition?

There is an increase of sudden death mortality in growing and finishing pigs. Post-mortemed pigs have the loops of gut distended with gas, have a deep purple colour and filled with heavily blood stained liquid. What is the most likely cause of this lesion

Several weaner pigs show clinical signs of diarrhoea and loss of body weight from the age of 8 weeks. At post-mortem examination, there is mucohaemorrhagic diarrhoea and enlargement of the Peyer patches in the intestinal lining. What is the cause?

There is bloody diarrhoea and mortality in 3 days old piglets. The small intestine of post-mortemed piglets is dark red, haemorrhagic and filled with bloody fluid. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

There is profuse yellowish scour, ill thrift and high mortality during the first 72 hours of life. What is the most likely cause of this condition?

Necrotic hepatitis with hepatic parenchyma infiltrated with gas bubbles is detected in a sudden dead sow during post-mortem examination. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

A sow is reluctant to walk. At inspection of the foot, a claw is warm, painful and there is a crack. What is this lesion?

There is an increase of ill thrift and laboured abdominal breathing in 6 to 8 weeks old weaner pigs. There is poor response to antimicrobial treatment. Mortality has increased from 1.5% to 6%. Post-mortemed pigs had interstitial pneumonia. What is it?

An increase of “humpy-back” pigs from 6 to 8 weeks of age was detected in this unit afecting up to 5% of the feeding herd with irrelevance of the sex. What is the cause of this lesion?