• 24 minutes
• Podcast in Episodes Season 4
• Robert Hoste

This second episode features once more Robert Hoste, Wageningen Economic Research, part of Wageningen University & Research, based in the Netherlands. In this podcast the topic is how to maintain profitability whilst focusing on sustainable pork production as well.

• 35 minutes
• Podcast in Episodes
• Dr. Poul Henning Rathkjen

“There are indications that some of the oldest vaccine strains are not providing full protection against emerging new genotypes of parvovirus”

• 6:40
• Expertise video

Despite the intensive vaccination programs applied in the field, erysipelas continues to be a costly global concern for the swine industry and public health 1,2,3. Post-farrowing vaccination is routinely applied to protect the breeding stock. However, there is a need to vaccinate growing pigs due to a lack of protection in the finishing period, and it is not uncommon to detect outbreaks in the field due to antibody waning 4,5. There is a need for further studies that aim at investigating other vaccination protocols that may increase protection against erysipelas under commercial conditions. Therefore, the specific objectives of this study were two-fold: 1) to study the seroconversion in sows and piglets between pre- and post-farrowing protocols against erysipelas over time; and 2) to describe the time-to-negative erysipelas protection between protocols.

• 2 minutes, 32 seconds
• Expertise article
• C. Trombani, M. Liber, P. Glatre, E. Lewandowski et. al.

Impact of PRRS vaccination