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Characterization of ESBL–producing Escherichia coli isolates from pigs and farm workers

ESBL-producing E. coli isolates with the same β-lactamase genes, antibiotic resistance profiles, enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus types, and multilocus sequence types were detected in both pigs and workers on the same pig farm.

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Research project to examine the resilience of the UK pig industry

More than £2 million has been awarded to scientists at the University of Lincoln, UK, to lead the most comprehensive study of the British pig industry ever conducted.

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Detection and distribution of TTSuV1 in PRRSv positive/negative pigs

Statistical analysis showed that PRRSV may have a synergistic effect with TTSuV1, and promote the replication and proliferation of TTSuV1.

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Health and economical impact of PRRS in Northern Ireland

The economic potential lost in a unit positive to PRRS could be around 35 – 37% of net unit margin.

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A new OIE and OECD collaboration to face animal health and welfare future challenges

The cooperation of the two organisations will notably concern exchange of information and technical cooperation, in particular by focusing on best practices, policies and economic evaluations, related to animal health and welfare, veterinary drugs...

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Ukraine confirms new ASF outbreaks on commercial farms

Two of the affected farms house more than 6,000 susceptible animals.

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Germany reduces the use of antibiotics in animal production by more than half

Between 2011 and 2015, the use of antibiotics in animal production dropped by more than half, going from 1,706 to 837 tonnes.

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Field evaluation of the intranasal route as an alternative for administering Streptococcus suis and Haemophilus parasuis bacterins

Pigs in this study appeared to respond very similarly between the IN and IM routes at the time of processing when boosted at weaning by the IM route.

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The restriction areas in Poland and the Baltic countries due to ASF are expanded

The new ASF cases have entailed an increase in the risk level and changes in different sections of the Annex of Decision 2014/709/UE, as well as the establishment of new provisional protection and surveillance zones.

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Development of congenital tremors following novel pestivirus inoculation

This is the first report to 1) identify a novel porcine pestivirus associated with CT and 2) successfully reproduce CT following inoculation of fetuses in utero.

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Inexpensive diagnostic test for foot-and-mouth disease

This could make diagnosis of FMD strains cheaper and easier, as only one integrin would be needed to identify all strains of FMDV.

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Novel porcine sapelovirus found during SHIC-funded diagnostic investigation

Porcine sapelovirus has been implicated in an acute outbreak of atypical neurologic disease.

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Influence of PCV2 vaccination on the level of antimicrobial consumption

The estimated impact of PCV-2 vaccination revealed a highly significant decline in total antimicrobial drug use on finishing farms.

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Shedding of cephalosporin resistant Escherichia coli in pigs from conventional farms

Intervention strategies targeting sows would likely have a beneficial effect in reducing the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance in primary pig production.

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U of S VIDO-InterVac develops vaccine for PEDV

In less than a year, University of Saskatchewan (U of S) scientists have developed and tested a prototype vaccine that could protect the North American swine industry from a virus that has killed more than eight million pigs and cost more than $400 million in lost income since 2013.

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Vesicular disease in 9-week-old pigs experimentally infected with Senecavirus A

Vesicular disease was experimentally induced in nursery-age pigs inoculated with SVA demonstrating for the first time a causal relationship between SVA infection and disease.