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  1. The objective of the present study was to explore the benefits of Porcine circovirus 2 (PCV-2) blanket vaccination in a sow herd on productive parameters, PCV-2 infection and immune status in sows and their proge...

    Authors: Patricia Pleguezuelos, Marina Sibila, Raúl Cuadrado, Rosa López-Jiménez, Diego Pérez, Eva Huerta, Anna M. Llorens, José Ignacio Núñez, Joaquim Segalés and Sergio López-Soria
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:35
  2. Urinary tract infections (UTI) of sows characterized by cystitis, which may progress to ureteritis and pyelonephritis, can affect their productivity, longevity and welfare. In this study, we determined the pre...

    Authors: Mihaela Cernat, Vassilis Skampardonis, Georgios A. Papadopoulos, Fotios Kroustallas, Sofia Chalvatzi, Evanthia Petridou, Vassilios Psychas, Christina Marouda, Paschalis Fortomaris and Leonidas Leontides
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:33
  3. Processing fluids (PF) and family oral fluids (FOF) are population-based surveillance samples collected from 2- to 5-day-old piglets and due-to-wean piglets, respectively. Although they are described for the s...

    Authors: Marcelo Nunes de Almeida, Cesar A. Corzo, Jeffrey J. Zimmerman and Daniel Correia Lima Linhares
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:31
  4. The present paper reviews the occurrence of neoplasms in swine and presents a case series of 56 tumors submitted to the Slaughterhouse Support Network (Servei de Suport a Escorxadors [SESC] IRTA-CReSA]) from slau...

    Authors: Antonia Morey-Matamalas, Enric Vidal, Jorge Martínez, Jaume Alomar, Antonio Ramis, Alberto Marco, Mariano Domingo and Joaquim Segalés
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:30
  5. Despite their indispensability in human medicine, fluoroquinolones (FQ) are used for the treatment of bacterial infections in farm animals which increases the risk of transferring FQ-resistant bacteria into th...

    Authors: Morena Amsler, Katrin Zurfluh, Sonja Hartnack, Xaver Sidler, Roger Stephan and Dolf Kümmerlen
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:29
  6. The duration of birth is an important factor influencing the survival of piglets and the health of sows. A prolonged parturition is usually treated with oxytocin, even though several undesirable side effects a...

    Authors: Alexander Grahofer, Ramona Bill and Heiko Nathues
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:28
  7. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global public health threat consequence of antimicrobial use (AMU) in human and animal medicine. In food-producing animals factors such as management, husbandry or biosecuri...

    Authors: Oscar Mencía-Ares, Héctor Argüello, Héctor Puente, Manuel Gómez-García, Edgar G. Manzanilla, Avelino Álvarez-Ordóñez, Ana Carvajal and Pedro Rubio
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:27
  8. Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae causes a chronic respiratory disease that produces important economic losses due to poor productive performance, increased mortality and costs for several control strategies. The prevalen...

    Authors: FJ Pallarés, JA Añón, IM Rodríguez-Gómez, J Gómez-Laguna, R Fabré, JM Sánchez-Carvajal, I Ruedas-Torres and L Carrasco
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:26
  9. The breeding population is very important in pig herds, for productivity, health and profitability. Replacement of breeding animals can be accomplished by own rearing of breeding gilts or by purchasing them. P...

    Authors: Elise Bernaerdt, Jeroen Dewulf, Robin Verhulst, Caroline Bonckaert and Dominiek Maes
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:25
  10. There is limited information on the distribution of virulence-associated genes (VAGs) in U.S. Streptococcus suis isolates, resulting in little understanding of the pathogenic potential of these isolates. This lac...

    Authors: April A. Estrada, Marcelo Gottschalk, Aaron Rendahl, Stephanie Rossow, Lacey Marshall-Lund, Douglas G. Marthaler and Connie J. Gebhart
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:22
  11. In breeding herds, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) clinically manifests as increased abortions, number of stillbirths, and pre-weaning mortality, and as a direct consequence, results in a ...

    Authors: D Torrents, J Miranda, PC Gauger, A Ramirez and DCL Linhares
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:21
  12. In Germany, animal welfare has become an increasingly important issue. Since 2006, German legislation demands self-monitoring of animal welfare by farmers, but there is a lack of prescribed indicators for gove...

    Authors: Julia Grosse-Kleimann, Heiko Plate, Henning Meyer, Hubert Gerhardy, Corinna Elisabeth Heucke and Lothar Kreienbrock
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:20
  13. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to assess the within-herd prevalence of pars oesophageal ulcers (POU) in high-risk Danish herds using commercial diets. Furthermore, we aimed to estimate the ass...

    Authors: Juan Miguel Peralvo-Vidal, Nicolai Rosager Weber, Jens Peter Nielsen, Matthew Denwood, Svend Haugegaard and Anni Øyan Pedersen
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:19
  14. Antibiotic (AB) consumption in production animals has a high awareness among politicians and consumers due to the risk of selection for AB resistance among potentially zoonotic bacteria. However, AB treatment ...

    Authors: J. C. Lynegaard, I. Larsen, C. F. Hansen, J. P. Nielsen and C. Amdi
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:18
  15. Although the tearing of tissues during castration is forbidden in the EU, it is still routinely applied in many countries. The goal of this study was to evaluate vocalizations and movements of male piglets und...

    Authors: Simone M. Schmid, Chiara I. Genter, Céline Heinemann and Julia Steinhoff-Wagner
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:17
  16. Hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype 3 and 4 is a zoonosis that causes hepatitis in humans. Humans can become infected by consumption of pork or contact with pigs. Pigs are the main reservoir of the virus worldwid...

    Authors: M. Meester, T. J. Tobias, M. Bouwknegt, N. E. Kusters, J. A. Stegeman and W. H. M. van der Poel
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:16
  17. Inflammation and necrosis can appear in pigs in several parts of the body simultaneously. The signs can affect newborns, suckling piglets and older pigs, and recent studies suggest that the syndrome is primari...

    Authors: Josef Kuehling, Kathrin Eisenhofer, Mirjam Lechner, Sabrina Becker, Hermann Willems and Gerald Reiner
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:15
  18. Genotypic variability in M. hyopneumoniae has been reported within and among herds. However, information regarding VNTR types within single lung lobes is lacking. The objective of his study was to analyse M. hyop...

    Authors: Matteo Tonni, M. Beatrice Boniotti, Sara Gasparrini, Flavia Guarneri, Nicoletta Formenti, Maria Pieters, Paolo Pasquali and Giovanni L. Alborali
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:14
  19. Lawsonia intracellularis is causing diarrhea, poor growth and sudden death in pigs. It can be found in most pig populations leading to large economic losses worldwide. Many potential risk factors for the occurren...

    Authors: Mirjam Arnold, Annelies Crienen, Hanny Swam, Stephan v. Berg, Rika Jolie and Heiko Nathues
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:13
  20. Internal parasites are common in pigs worldwide and may induce clinical disease or subclinical infections with negative effects such as poor weight gain and reduced welfare, which in turn affect productivity. ...

    Authors: Emelie Pettersson, Marie Sjölund, Torun Wallgren, Eva Osterman Lind, Johan Höglund and Per Wallgren
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:12
  21. Nutritional strategies for sows designed to reduce peripartum stress are suggested to support postpartum recovery and productivity. Spray-dried plasma (SDP) in sow feed has been reported to benefit sow and lit...

    Authors: Joe Crenshaw, Laura Lafoz del Río, Luis Sanjoaquin, Simon Tibble, Francesc González-Solé, David Solà-Oriol, Carmen Rodriguez, Joy Campbell and Javier Polo
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:11
  22. Managing body weight (BW) variation is a challenge in farrow-to-finish farms implementing all-in/all-out (AIAO) production systems due to the lack of “off-site” facilities to segregate slow growing pigs (SGP)....

    Authors: Maria Rodrigues da Costa, Edgar García Manzanilla, Alessia Diana, Nienke van Staaveren, Alberto Torres-Pitarch, Laura Ann Boyle and Julia Adriana Calderón Díaz
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:10
  23. Classical swine fever (CSF) is one of the most devastating pig diseases that affect the swine industry worldwide. Besides stamping out policy for eradication, immunization with vaccines of live attenuated CSF ...

    Authors: Jing-Yuan Chen, Chi-Ming Wu, Zeng-Weng Chen, Chih-Ming Liao, Ming-Chung Deng, Min-Yuan Chia, Chienjin Huang and Maw-Sheng Chien
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:9
  24. Enzyme supplementation with a β-mannanase to degrade β-mannan fibers present in the diet has been shown to restore and improve performance in swine. The current study was conducted on a farm which had historic...

    Authors: Frédéric Vangroenweghe, Karl Poulsen and Olivier Thas
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:8
  25. Low space allowance (SA) and mixing may result in reduced growth performance (GP) and animal welfare issues because of adverse social behaviours directed to pen mates. This could be exacerbated in pens with si...

    Authors: Jordi Camp Montoro, Laura Ann Boyle, David Solà-Oriol, Ramon Muns, Josep Gasa and Edgar Garcia Manzanilla
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:7
  26. In the last two decades, in France, Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) stabilization protocols have been implemented using mass vaccination with a modified live vaccine (MLV), herd clo...

    Authors: A. Lebret, P. Berton, V. Normand, I. Messager, N. Robert, F. Bouchet, M. Brissonnier and G. Boulbria
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:6
  27. The perception of the importance of animal health and its relationship with biosecurity has increased in recent years with the emergence and re-emergence of several diseases difficult to control. This is parti...

    Authors: Laura Valeria Alarcón, Alberto Allepuz and Enric Mateu
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:5

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  28. Piglet pre-weaning mortality (PWM) is one of the biggest problems regarding sow performance and piglet welfare. Recently, PWM has increased in some countries, but it is not known if there are similar increases...

    Authors: Yuzo Koketsu, Ryosuke Iida and Carlos Piñeiro
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:4
  29. Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) continues to be a major economic issue for the swine industry worldwide, not only due to acute outbreaks but also endemic infections. PRRS disease se...

    Authors: C. Renken, C. Nathues, H. Swam, K. Fiebig, C. Weiss, M. Eddicks, M. Ritzmann and H. Nathues
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:3
  30. Free-range pig farming represents a minor proportion of pig production in France but is attracting an increasing number of farmers because of societal expectations and the opportunity to use pasture-grazed for...

    Authors: Agnès Waret-Szkuta, Laura Jégou, Marie Noelle Lucas, Nicolas Gaide, Hervé Morvan and Guy-Pierre Martineau
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:2
  31. Deliberate infection of humans with smallpox, also known as variolation, was a common practice in Asia and dates back to the fifteenth century. The world’s first human vaccination was administered in 1796 by E...

    Authors: Tanja Opriessnig, Ashley A. Mattei, Anbu K. Karuppannan and Patrick G. Halbur
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2021 7:1
  32. Multiple diagnostic procedures, their results and interpretation in a case with severe lameness in fattening pigs are described. It is shown that selected diagnostic steps lead to identification of various ris...

    Authors: B. Wegner, J. Tenhündfeld, J. Vogels, M. Beumer, J. Kamphues, F. Hansmann, H. Rieger, E. grosse Beilage and I. Hennig-Pauka
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2020 6:41
  33. Farrowing induction with prostaglandin F2 analogue cloprostenol is commonly used on commercial farms to manage the timing of farrowing. When labour induction is applied, the questions arise about possible side...

    Authors: Karolina Hlavová, Hana Kudláčková and Martin Faldyna
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2020 6:35
  34. Pluck lesions are associated with decreased performance in grower-finisher pigs, but their economic impact needs to be further investigated. This study aimed to identify the main pluck lesions and the cut-off ...

    Authors: Julia Adriana Calderón Díaz, Maria Rodrigues da Costa, Laurence Shalloo, Jarkko K. Niemi, Finola Catherine Leonard, Daniel Crespo-Piazuelo, Josep Gasa and Edgar García Manzanilla
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2020 6:40
  35. Serological screening is a common method to monitor antibody response to pathogen exposure, but results could vary due to several factors. This study aimed to quantify animal and management related factors ass...

    Authors: Rose Mary Fitzgerald, Helen O’Shea, Edgar García Manzanilla, John Moriarty, Hugh McGlynn and Julia Adriana Calderón Díaz
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2020 6:34
  36. The efficacy of a water soluble formulation of tylvalosin (Aivlosin® 625 mg/g granules) was evaluated in the treatment and metaphylaxis of Enzootic Pneumonia (EP) in pigs. In all four trials, pigs in the tylva...

    Authors: Alfonso Lopez Rodriguez, Anna Catharina Berge, Cliff Ramage, Ryan Saltzman, Rickie J. Domangue, Mark J. Gnozzio, Annika Muller, Pascale Sierra and Hafid A. Benchaoui
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2020 6:39
  37. Tuberculosis like lesions (TBL) in free-range pigs are characterised by presenting a marked heterogeneity in pathology and microbiology features, with a notorious role of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC),...

    Authors: Fernando Cardoso-Toset, Jaime Gómez-Laguna, Lidia Gómez-Gascón, Irene M. Rodríguez-Gómez, Angela Galán-Relaño, Librado Carrasco, Carmen Tarradas, Ana I. Vela and Inmaculada Luque
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2020 6:36
  38. Mycoplasma hyorhinis is an invader of the upper respiratory tract in swine that is considered to have ubiquitous distribution. It is mainly known for causing polyserositis and polyarthritis in weaned piglets, eve...

    Authors: Moritz Bünger, Rene Brunthaler, Christine Unterweger, Igor Loncaric, Maximiliane Dippel, Ursula Ruczizka, Lukas Schwarz, Alfred Griessler, Thomas Voglmayr, Doris Verhovsek, Andrea Ladinig and Joachim Spergser
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2020 6:38
  39. Vitrification may severely affect cumulus cells and oocyte morphology and viability, limiting their maturation and developmental potential. The aim of this study was to evaluate the gap junction intercellular ...

    Authors: Fahiel Casillas, Yvonne Ducolomb, Alma López and Miguel Betancourt
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2020 6:37
  40. Swine inflammation and necrosis syndrome (SINS) is a newly identified syndrome in swine that can affect different parts of the extremities in suckling piglets. This study investigates the hypotheses that the c...

    Authors: Gerald Reiner, Josef Kühling, Mirjam Lechner, Hansjörg Schrade, Janine Saltzmann, Christoph Muelling, Sven Dänicke and Frederik Loewenstein
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2020 6:32
  41. Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease of importance to public health and in livestock productions. It causes significant economic losses in pig breeding farms worldwide. However, actual transmission cycles and d...

    Authors: Kathi Scheinpflug, Sabine Schiller, Helen Jäkel, Martin Schulze, Dagmar Waberski and Kristin Mühldorfer
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2020 6:31
  42. It is now widely recognised that a positive human-animal relationship is beneficial not only for farm animals’ welfare but also for productivity and the quality of products. A better understanding of animal em...

    Authors: Míriam Marcet-Rius, Patrick Pageat, Cécile Bienboire-Frosini, Eva Teruel, Philippe Monneret, Julien Leclercq and Alessandro Cozzi
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2020 6:29
  43. So far, three porcine hemoplasmas (PH) have been identified, namely Mycoplasma suis, Mycoplasma parvum, and Mycoplasma haemosuis. The first one is the main agent associated with porcine hemoplasmosis, a possible ...

    Authors: Fernando Antônio Moreira Petri, Karina Sonalio, Henrique Meiroz de Souza Almeida, Maria Eugênia Silveira Ferraz, Gabriel Yuri Storino, Mauro Rodrigo de Souza, Marcos Rogério André and Luis Guilherme de Oliveira
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2020 6:33
  44. Recent decades have seen both rapid growth and extensive consolidation in swine production. As a collateral effect, these changes have exacerbated the circulation of viruses and challenged our ability to preve...

    Authors: Alexandra Henao-Diaz, Luis Giménez-Lirola, David H. Baum and Jeffrey Zimmerman
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2020 6:28
  45. There is concern that the use of antimicrobials in livestock production has a role in the emergence and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance in animals and humans. Consequently, there are increasing effor...

    Authors: Lorcan O’Neill, Maria Rodrigues da Costa, Finola C. Leonard, James Gibbons, Julia Adriana Calderón Díaz, Gerard McCutcheon and Edgar García Manzanilla
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2020 6:30
  46. In July 2019, a PRRSV-negative boar station was infected with a recombinant of two PRRSV vaccine strains, which subsequently spread to at least 36 herds that had received semen from the boar station. In the fo...

    Authors: C. S. Kristensen, M. G. Christiansen, K. Pedersen and L. E. Larsen
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2020 6:26
  47. The efficacy of a novel inactivated intradermal Lawsonia intracellularis vaccine, Porcilis® Lawsonia ID, was evaluated in two experimental vaccination-challenge studies and under field conditions on a farm with a...

    Authors: A. A. C. Jacobs, F. Harks, R. Pauwels, Q. Cao, H. Holtslag, S. Pel and R. P. A. M. Segers
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2020 6:25