Monitor outcomes to ensure long-term PRRS control success. Track diagnostic results and pig performance data across sow, grow-finish, and whole production systems to detect low-level virus circulation, guide decisions, and move herds toward stable or negative status.
The Guilty Gilt Guide was written with a clear objective – to maximize the whole-herd performance of pig populations by helping gilts to reach their full reproductive potential and produce healthy pigs that reach their full genetic potential during grow-finish.
The open reading frames (ORF)5 represents approximately 4% of the porcine repro- ductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV)-2 genome (whole-PRRSV) and is often determined by the Sanger technique, which rarely detects >1 PRRSV strain if present in the sample.
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is an important swine pathogen affecting the global swine industry.
Due to difficulties in eradicating porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) linked to biosecurity challenges, transmission of the virus and the lack of efficient DIVA vaccines, successful control of PRRS requires a combination of strict management measures and vaccination of both sows and piglets. The present study aimed to assess the efficacy of a recently developed MLV vaccine (Ingelvac PRRSFLEX® EU) in piglets at 2 and 3-weeks of age in the presence of homologous maternally derived antibodies as the dams were vaccinated with the same vaccine strain (ReproCyc® PRRS EU).
Post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) is a globally emergent epizootic disease of swine. As the name suggests, the disease is mainly described in pigs aged 6-12 weeks and is manifest clinically by mortality, ill-thrift (wasting), paleness, dyspnoea, intermittent diarrhoea and visibly enlarged lymph nodes. Since its first description in Western Canada in 1991 the disease has rapidly spread to all the major pig producing countries of the world including Europe, the Americas and Asia. Most recently, the disease been reported in several countries that were previously considered free from disease (New Zealand and Sweden). PMWS is one of the most common forms of porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVD) on a global scale. The role of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) in PMWS is clear in terms of its association with the pathology, but less clear in terms of the mechanisms of disease induction and pathogenesis. There is evidence that PCV2 was circulating, at least in Europe, as far back as the 1960s in the absence of epizootic PMWS. PCV2 has been associated with a number of non-PMWS disease conditions, or PCVDs, including porcine respiratory disease complex, porcine dermatitis and nephropathy syndrome (PDNS), granulomatous enteritis, and occasional reproductive disorders.
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Identified for the first time in the 1990s, Porcine circovirus 2 (PCV-2) should not be considered an emerging virus anymore. Nevertheless, many aspects of its biology and epidemiology are still controversial.