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Actinobaculum suis infections
Cystitis and pyelonephritis caused by infection with Actinobaculum suis affects mainly adult female pigs. Infection of the bladder and...
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porcine circovirus infections
Porcine circovirus (PCV) was first recognized as a contaminant of the continuous pig kidney cell line PK/15 (Tischer et al., 1982). This PCV...
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porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome
In the early 1980s a previously unrecognized disease syndrome started causing heavy production losses in pig herds in North America. In the...
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Glassers disease
Haemophilus parasuis is a bacterium that causes disease in many body systems of pigs. It may affect all ages but is particularly...
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swine influenza
Swine influenza (SI) is an acute viral respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae....
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Menangle virus infection
This virus was discovered in an outbreak of stillborn pigs with deformities in a large piggery in New South Wales, Australia in 1997. Philbey,...
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selenium deficiency
Selenium-responsive conditions often occur in conjunction with vitamin E deficiency in cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, fowl and horses. Deficiency...
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proliferative enteropathy
Lawsonia intracellularis is the cause of proliferative enteropathy (PE, ileitis), a common enteric disease affecting pigs raised...
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Demodex phylloides
Demodectic mange is relatively unimportant in pigs and is most frequently identified only at meat inspection. It is seldom reported as a...
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Staphylococcus hyicus infection
Staphylococcus hyicus is a Gram-positive coccus, which is the causative agent of the skin disease exudative epidermitis (EE) in pigs....
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