Toxoplasmosis is a worldwide parasitic zoonosis caused by Toxoplasma gondii. Pigs can become infected by consuming water or food contaminated with sporulated oocysts, or by carnivorism (like the...
The American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification system is commonly used in all fields of veterinary medicine, with higher grades correlated with increased mortality in...
Swine respiratory disease (SRD) often involves multiple diseases and co-infections that can greatly impact a pig producer’s profitability. SRD causes approximately 44% of nursery pig deaths and 61%...
Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory has seen an increase in Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (APP) cases in the past several months, and multiple practitioners in the Upper Midwest...
The study measured the hormonal and protein markers of acute stress, those of oxidative stress and total antioxidant capacity (TAC) in swine oral fluid, determined which of these parameters would be...
The German National Reference Laboratory confirms the first positive case of African swine fever in a pig farm in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
The Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (BMEL) has reported that African swine fever (ASF) first appeared in a population of domestic pigs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The national...
It allows its presence to be assessed without the biosafety requirements of a level 3 laboratory, which can substantially speed up early detection of the pathogen.
Medical management resulted in survival times from 2 months to a year and a half following diagnosis
Respiratory disease is common in guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus). As obligate nasal breathers, disease of the upper airway can result in significant dyspnea.
The Chinese authorities warn that the increasing genetic diversity and geographical distribution of the H5N6 virus are a serious threat to the poultry industry and human health.
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay agree on strategies for action before the appearance of cases last July.
To evaluate MAT titers in routinely vaccinated healthy research pigs compared to their unvaccinated cohorts
Diagnosis and surveillance of pathogenic Leptospira is difficult as organisms may be intermittently shed and in small numbers. Therefore, serologic testing by the microscopic agglutination test (MAT)...
The US Department of Agriculture announces a development that effectively protects European and Asian breed pigs against the current variant of the virus.
