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Early detection of infection in pigs through an online monitoring system

This system may be useful for monitoring sentinel herds in real time, considerably reducing the financial and logistical costs of periodic sampling and increasing the chances of early detection of infection.

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Controlling Disease: It's not about the bugs

Controlling Disease: It's not about the bugs - Dr. Jim Lowe, Integrated Food Animal Medicine Systems, Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, from the 2015 Midwest Pork Conference, December 1, 2015, Danville, IN, USA.

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France sets new regulations for the use of critical antibiotics in Veterinary Medicine

The French Ministry of Agriculture reported the entry into force, from April 2016, of new regulations governing the use of critical antibiotics in Veterinary Medicine.

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Exposure to oral fluid in PRRS gilt acclimation

The method is based on oral fluid collection from the groups of viraemic pigs by means of cotton ropes that will be hung in the incoming gilts pens.

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Entire head of the femur fractured at or below the epiphysis showing swelling around fracture site due to periostitis

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Clinical case: An unusual manifestation of Strep suis infection

At least 25% of the pigs from 2 to 3 weeks old were reported to be lame, some so severe that they lay in the arcs shaking and unable to stand.

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Delta-pgm, a new live-attenuated vaccine against Brucella suis

We describe here the construction of a novel vaccine strain that confers excellent protection against B. suis in a mouse model of infection.

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Genome plasticity of triple-reassortant H1N1 influenza A virus during infection of vaccinated pigs

Results demonstrated remarkable IAV diversity, and the complex, rapid and dynamic evolution of IAV during infection of vaccinated pigs that can only be appreciated with repeated sampling of individual animals and deep sequence analysis.

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First case of ASF in Kirovograd oblast, Ukraine

According to OIE and PigUA, Ukranian veterinary authorities have confirmed an outbreak of African Swine Fever near Voinivka village.

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Heterogenicidad genética y antigénica relacionada con la granja

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Evolution of swine influenza viruses and its impact on antigenic cross-reactivity

Swine influenza viruses are diverse at genetic and antigenic level, resulting in a limited cross-reactivity in viruses sharing a common ancestor or belonging to a same subtype.

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Colombia: new control measures against CSF on the Atlantic Coast

Since the beginning of the year, 12 CSF outbreaks have been detected in this area of the country.

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New decrease in the use of antibiotics in Danish pig production

In 2015, the use of antibiotics in Danish pig production fell by 5%.

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Heterologous challenge in the presence of maternally-derived antibodies results in vaccine-associated enhanced respiratory disease in weaned piglets

Our data indicates that although high titers of vaccine-derived MDA reduced homologous virus infection, transmission, and disease, MDA alone was sufficient to induce vaccine associated enhanced respiratory disease upon heterologous infection.

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Superbugs: MEPs want to curb use of antibiotics in farming

To fight the growing resistance of bacteria to today’s antibiotics, the use of existing antimicrobial drugs should be restricted, and new ones should be developed, said the European Parliament on Thursday.

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Risk factors associated to Oedema disease in pigs

OD will normally appear after 1 or 2 weeks post-weaning and most likely associated to the presence of other risk factors.

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MEPs approve updated rules to help contain transmissible animal diseases

Following Parliament's endorsement, the regulation can now be published in the EU Official Journal.

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A DIVA vaccine for cross-protection against Salmonella

The attenuated S. Typhimurium BBS 866 strain, containing mutations in rfaH and multiple sRNAs, addresses the limitations of current Salmonella vaccines by providing cross-protection against Salmonella serovars in swine without interfering with established monitoring programs for Salmonella surveillance.