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  1. Umbilical outpouchings (UO) are common in Danish weaners. In slaughter pigs UOs consist of various pathological diagnoses; however, no studies have assessed the pathology in weaners from randomly selected herd...

    Authors: Marie-Louise Hansen, Inge Larsen, Tina Birk Jensen, Charlotte Sonne Kristensen and Ken Steen Pedersen
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:54
  2. Several surveys conducted at slaughter sites have highlighted that gastric lesions are a widespread issue in fattening pigs, mainly due to feeding regimes. Diets with small particle sizes and low fibre content...

    Authors: M. Spanghero, M. Braidot, M. Orioles, C. Sarnataro, I. Pividori and A. Romanzin
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:53
  3. Porcine circovirus 3 (PCV3) is a recently discovered swine pathogen associated with reproductive disease. To date, clinical problems linked to PCV3 have been described in intensive rearing pig farms. The prese...

    Authors: Àlex Cobos, Marina Sibila, Eva Huerta, Mónica Pérez, Marcial Marcos, Rut Menjón, Marta Jiménez, Laura Gálvez and Joaquim Segalés
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:52
  4. Glutamine is a nonessential amino acid and the most abundant amino acid found in the seminal plasma and sperm-rich fraction of boar semen. Glutamine plays an important role in enhancing glutathione (GSH) synth...

    Authors: Morakot Nuntapaitoon, Padet Tummaruk and Junpen Suwimonteerabutr
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:50
  5. Aggregated samples such as oral fluids (OFs) display an animal friendly and time and cost-efficient sample type for swine Influenza A virus (swIAV) monitoring. However, further molecular and biological charact...

    Authors: K. Grau, K. Lillie-Jaschniski, A. Graaf-Rau, T. Harder, M. Eddicks, S. Zöls, Y. Zablotski, M. Ritzmann and J. Stadler
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:49
  6. Three experiments were conducted separately to determine the optimum standardized ileal digestible (SID) valine (Val) to lysine (Lys) ratio for early finishing (Experiment 1, 40 to 75 kg bodyweight), finishing...

    Authors: Zijuan Wu, Wenli Li and Yali Li
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:48
  7. Post-weaning diarrhea (PWD) is a frequently occurring health and welfare issue in weaned piglets. Behavioral changes indicating impaired health may be detectable before the onset of signs and could be useful t...

    Authors: Vivian L. Witjes, Fleur Veldkamp, Francisca C. Velkers, Ingrid C. de Jong, Ellen Meijer, Johanna M. J. Rebel, Jan A. Stegeman and Tijs J. Tobias
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:47
  8. All-in, all-out with strict hygienic routines is necessary in modern pig production. Furthermore, a standardised, validated method is needed to quantitatively control the effect of these hygiene protocols. Thi...

    Authors: Lisa Dahlin, Ingrid Hansson, Nils Fall, Axel Sannö and Magdalena Jacobson
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:45
  9. Neutralizing antibodies against PRRSV are capable of conferring protection against viral reinfection, but they tend to be strain specific and usually have poor cross-reactivity. Nonetheless, it has been descri...

    Authors: Jaime Castillo-Pérez, Francisco Javier Martínez-Lobo, Raquel Frómeta, José María Castro, Isabel Simarro and Cinta Prieto
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:44
  10. Haemorrhagic bowel syndrome (HBS) is one of the most common causes of death in fattening pigs worldwide. The objective of this descriptive study was to systematically assess predictors or causal components for...

    Authors: Fabienne Holenweger, Peter Spring, Negar Khayatzadeh, Andreas Hofer, Gertraud Schüpbach-Regula and Alexander Grahofer
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:43
  11. A high number of stillborn piglets has a negative impact on production and animal welfare. It is an important contributor to piglet mortality around farrowing and continues to rise with the increase of prolifi...

    Authors: Charlotte Teixeira Costa, Gwenaël Boulbria, Christophe Dutertre, Céline Chevance, Théo Nicolazo, Valérie Normand, Justine Jeusselin and Arnaud Lebret
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:42
  12. The IgM protease (IdeSsuis gene; Gene ID 8153996) of Streptococcus suis is a putative virulence factor that has been shown to be a protective vaccine antigen for pigs (Seele et al. Vaccine 33:2207–12, 2015). To a...

    Authors: A. A. C. Jacobs, A. W. F. Grommen, S. Badbanchi, A. J. van Hout, T. J. van Kasteren-Westerneng, L. Garcia Morales, R. Bron and R. P. A. M. Segers
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:41
  13. Application of data-driven strategies may support veterinarians’ decision-making, benefitting pig disease prevention and control. However, little is known about veterinarians’ need for data utilisation to supp...

    Authors: Xiao Zhou, Beatriz Garcia-Morante, Alison Burrell, Carla Correia-Gomes, Lucia Dieste-Pérez, Karlijn Eenink, Joaquim Segalés, Marina Sibila, Michael Siegrist, Tijs Tobias, Carles Vilalta and Angela Bearth
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:40
  14. Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) has significant productivity and economic impacts in swine herds. Accurately determining the PRRSV status at the herd level is crucial for producers ...

    Authors: Mingyu Fan, Yang Li, Zhiqiang Hu, Lujie Bian, Weisheng Wu, Wei Liu, Meng Li, Xinglong wang, Jing Ren, Lili Wu and Xiaowen Li
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:39
  15. Lawsonia intracellularis is the causative agent of Porcine Proliferative Enteropathy (PPE), one of the most prevalent pig enteric diseases worldwide, but with sparse information about early infections in suckling...

    Authors: Víctor Rodriguez-Vega, Héctor Puente, Ana Carvajal, Lucía Pérez-Pérez, Samuel Gómez-Martínez, Fernando L. Leite, Rocío García, Lola Abella and Héctor Argüello
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:38
  16. A Tonsil-Oral-Scrubbing (TOSc) method was developed to sample the sow’s oropharyngeal and tonsillar area without snaring and has shown comparable porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) RNA...

    Authors: Peng Li, Ana Paula Poeta Silva, Hao Tong, Paul Yeske, Laura Dalquist, Jason Kelly, Matt Finch, Amanda V. Anderson Reever, Darwin L. Reicks, Joseph F. Connor, Phillip C. Gauger, Derald J. Holtkamp, Gustavo S. Silva, Giovani Trevisan and Daniel C. L. Linhares
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:37
  17. Within the last decades industrial swine herds in Europe grown significantly, creating an optimized reservoir for swine influenza A viruses (swIAV) to become enzootic, particularly in piglet producing herds am...

    Authors: Kathrin Schmies, Christin Hennig, Nicolas Rose, Christelle Fablet, Timm Harder, Elisabeth grosse Beilage and Annika Graaf-Rau
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:36
  18. The administration of a gonadotropin releasing factor (GnRF) analog to pigs has proven to induce antibodies against endogenous GnRF. In gilts (young female pigs), the subsequent blocking of GnRF activity by sp...

    Authors: Sandra Genís, Vickie King, Marijke Aluwé, Alice Van den Broeke, Frédéric Descamps, Álvaro Aldaz, Niels Wuyts, Alícia Reixach and Mònica Balasch
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:35
  19. During the fall of 2020, the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) L1C.5 variant emerged and rapidly spread throughout southern Minnesota generating questions regarding possible transmiss...

    Authors: Claudio Marcello Melini, Mariana Kikuti, Laura Bruner, Matt Allerson, Katie O’Brien, Chase Stahl, Brian Roggow, Paul Yeske, Brad Leuwerke, Mark Schwartz, Montserrat Torremorell and Cesar A. Corzo
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:34
  20. There is a higher risk for nematode infections associated with outdoor-reared pigs. Next to Ascaris suum, Oesophagostomum dentatum and Trichuris suis, there is the potential of infections with other nodular worm ...

    Authors: Hannah R. M. Fischer, Jürgen Krücken, Stefan Fiedler, Veronica Duckwitz, Hendrik Nienhoff, Stephan Steuber, Ricarda Daher and Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:33
  21. Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) is a highly contagious disease caused by Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV), resulting in a mortality rate of suckling piglets as high as 100%. Vaccination is the primary st...

    Authors: Zhiqiang Hu, Yang Li, Bingzhou Zhang, Ying Zhao, Ran Guan, Yapeng Zhou, Jiafa Du, Zhimin Zhang and Xiaowen Li
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:32
  22. Mycoplasma (M.) hyopneumoniae is associated with respiratory disease in pigs and is the primary agent of enzootic pneumonia. Quantification of M. hyopneumoniae-related outcome parameters can be difficult, expensi...

    Authors: Karina Sonalio, Filip Boyen, Bert Devriendt, Ilias Chantziaras, Lisa Beuckelaere, Evelien Biebaut, Freddy Haesebrouck, Irene Santamarta, Luís Guilherme de Oliveira and Dominiek Maes
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:31
  23. The immunocrit is a cost-effective and straightforward technique traditionally used to assess passive immunity transfer to newborn piglets. However, it has not been previously used for monitoring the effect of...

    Authors: Mònica Sagrera, Marina Sibila, Núria Martínez-Boixaderas, Anna Maria Llorens, David Espigares, Josep Pastor, Laura Garza-Moreno and Joaquim Segalés
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:30
  24. Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) is one of the most challenging viral diseases that cause substantial economic losses in the pig industry worldwide. The clinical signs of PRRS depend on, am...

    Authors: Houda Laghouaouta, Lorenzo J. Fraile, Joan Estany and Ramona N. Pena
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:29
  25. Two outbreaks of swinepox were investigated in free-range domestic pig farms located in the northeastern side of Sicily, Italy. The disease is generally self-limiting with a low mortality rate, but morbidity c...

    Authors: Vincenzo Di Marco Lo Presti, Dorotea Ippolito, Giusy Cardeti, Antonella Cersini, Luigi Bertolotti, Benedetta Amato, Barbara Colitti, Chiara Giudice, Flavia Pruiti Ciarello, Domenico Vicari, Maria Teresa Scicluna, Maria Teresa Capucchio, Rosita Calogero and Michele Fiasconaro
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:28
  26. Timely euthanasia of a compromised pig in farming practice has been identified as a critical topic in veterinary medicine. The questions ‘why and when are pigs euthanized’ and ‘what influences the decision mak...

    Authors: J. Stoffregen, T. Winkelmann, B. Schneider, K. Gerdes, M. Miller, J. Reinmold, C. Kleinsorgen, K. H. Toelle, L. Kreienbrock and E. grosse Beilage
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:27
  27. Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) is a significant swine pathogen, yet the immune response components contributing to protection remain incompletely understood. Broadly reactive neutr...

    Authors: Ángeles Plaza-Soriano, Francisco Javier Martínez-Lobo, Laura Garza-Moreno, Jaime Castillo-Pérez, Elki Caballero, José María Castro, Isabel Simarro and Cinta Prieto
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:26
  28. Most sows will experience negative energy balance during lactation resulting in impaired follicular development. This study aimed to treat 28-day lactating sows with altrenogest (ALT) to suppress follicle enla...

    Authors: Kexiong Liu, Xiaoling Xu, Yuqing Song, Linli Xiao, Junhui Wen, Haiquan Ding, Shuxin Zhao, Dongliang Qiao, Bo Zhang, Aihua Niu, Jiahua Bai and Yan Liu
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:25
  29. Swine dysentery (SD) is a severe mucohaemorrhagic colitis in pigs caused classically by Brachyspira hyodysenteriae. Although several aspects of B. hyodysenteriae infection dynamic are already described, further r...

    Authors: Lucía Pérez-Pérez, Ana Carvajal, Héctor Puente, Camila Peres Rubio, Jose Joaquín Cerón, Pedro Rubio and Héctor Argüello
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:24
  30. Ear and tail lesions are prevalent indicators of impaired welfare observed in pig production with different multifactorial causes. Understanding the progression of ear and tail lesions over time is important t...

    Authors: Nienke van Staaveren, Joana Pessoa, Laura Ann Boyle and Julia Adriana Calderón Díaz
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:23
  31. Immediately after birth, newborn piglets fight to establish a teat order. During this process, lesions appear on the piglets’ faces and on the sows’ teats, which is why tooth resection is carried out on many f...

    Authors: Franziska Anna kleine Kruthaup, Michaela Fels, Carolin Bernarda Timphaus, Fritjof Freise, Swetlana Herbrandt and Elisabeth große Beilage
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:22
  32. Identification of animals in need of medical treatment is important in porcine health management, where analytical samples applicable at farm level could be utilized. Several biomarkers are measurable in saliv...

    Authors: Virpi Piirainen, Ana M. Gutiérrez, Mari Heinonen, Emilia König, Anna Valros and Sami Junnikkala
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:21
  33. Mammals are subject to circadian rhythms for the control of various physiological events. One of the parameters known to be subject to variations throughout the day is body temperature, which is also subject t...

    Authors: P. Sánchez-Giménez, A. Martínez-Nicolas, J. A. Madrid, R. Fernández, L. Martínez-Alarcón, F. Murciano, A. Muñoz and G. Ramis
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:20
  34. Monitoring of infectious diseases on swine farms requires a high diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of the test system. Moreover, particularly in cases of swine influenza A virus (swIAV) it is desirable to...

    Authors: Julia Stadler, Sophia Zwickl, Sophie Gumbert, Mathias Ritzmann, Kathrin Lillie-Jaschniski, Timm Harder, Annika Graaf-Rau, Vassilis Skampardonis and Matthias Eddicks
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:19
  35. Infection with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) leads to significant economic losses worldwide. One of the initial measures following an outbreak is to stabilise the herd and to prev...

    Authors: Sophie Dürlinger, Heinrich Kreutzmann, Christine Unterweger, Vera Martin, Flora Hamar, Christian Knecht, Angelika Auer, Katharina Dimmel, Till Rümenapf, Alfred Griessler, Thomas Voglmayr, Roland Maurer, Alexander Oppeneder and Andrea Ladinig
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:18
  36. Umbilical outpouchings (UOs) in pigs are of welfare and production concern in Danish pig herds. One of the challenges is the transportation of these animals due to the size of the UOs and ulcerations on them. ...

    Authors: Benjamin Meyer Jørgensen, Tina Birk Jensen, Cecilie Brandt Becker, Christoffer Kirkelund Flyger, Maja Vive Christensen, Andreas Birch and Henrik Elvang Jensen
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:17
  37. Pressure to abolish farrowing crates is increasing, and producers are faced with decisions about which alternative system to adopt. For sow welfare, well designed free farrowing systems without close confineme...

    Authors: Emma M. Baxter, Nicola Bowers, Rebecca King, Sarah Brocklehurst and Sandra A. Edwards
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:16
  38. While gilts and sows are regularly vaccinated against the porcine parvovirus (PPV), little is known on the presence of antibodies in vaccinated sows nor the decline of maternally derived antibodies (MDA) in th...

    Authors: René Renzhammer, Uwe Truyen, Birgit Buchebner, Gertrude Baumgartner, Rea Maja Kobialka, Ahmed Abd El Wahed, Michaela Koch, Andrea Ladinig and Christine Unterweger
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:15
  39. Since its first introduction into the German wild boar population in 2020, African swine fever (ASF) has been spreading slowly from the eastern border westwards and has been introduced into eight domestic pig ...

    Authors: Leonie Klein, Ursula Gerdes, Sandra Blome, Amely Campe and Elisabeth grosse Beilage
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:14
  40. Farm animals face several challenges throughout their lives, which can affect both their welfare and their productivity. Promoting adaptation in animals is one way of limiting these consequences. In various an...

    Authors: Manon Chasles, Míriam Marcet-Rius, Jen-Yun Chou, Eva Teruel, Patrick Pageat and Alessandro Cozzi
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:13
  41. Diarrheal diseases caused by viral agents have led to a great morbidity, mortality, and economic loss in global pig industry. Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV),...

    Authors: Wenbo Song, Yixue Feng, Jiali Zhang, Danni Kong, Jie Fan, Mengfei Zhao, Lin Hua, Jinmei Xiang, Xibiao Tang, Shaobo Xiao, Zhong Peng and Bin Wu
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:12
  42. The complex aetiology of gastric lesions in pigs remains largely unknown and effective preventive measures and pharmaceutical treatment of the disease have not been developed yet. Regardless of the fact that t...

    Authors: Piotr Cybulski, Aleksandra Woźniak, Magdalena Larska, Artur Jabłoński and Tomasz Stadejek
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:11
  43. Umbilical outpouchings (UOs) are common in Danish pigs. Neonatal antibiotics are therefore used with the hope of reducing umbilical infections and subsequently UOs. However, the effect of neonatal antibiotics ...

    Authors: Marie-Louise Hansen, Inge Larsen, Tina Birk Jensen, Charlotte Sonne Kristensen and Ken Steen Pedersen
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:10

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  44. Our previous study confirmed that large litter size adversely affects prepartum maternal hormones and behaviour, concurrently with heightened oxidative stress in primiparous sows. The purpose of this study was...

    Authors: Juho Lee, Hyeonwook Shin, Junsik Kim, Geonil Lee and Jinhyeon Yun
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:9
  45. This study aimed to validate slaughterhouse indicators collected during meat inspection as an alternative to on-farm animal welfare indicators. For this purpose, the assessments of twelve on-farm and seven sla...

    Authors: Johanna Witt, Joachim Krieter, Kathrin Büttner, Thore Wilder, Mario Hasler, Ralf Bussemas, Stephanie Witten and Irena Czycholl
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:8
  46. The wide diversity of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) strains combined with incomplete heterologous cross-protection complicates the management of the disease at both the herd and t...

    Authors: Marie-Ève Lambert, Julie Arsenault, Jean-Charles Côté and Sylvie D’Allaire
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:7
  47. Data on abnormal health conditions in animals obtained from slaughter inspection are important for identifying problems in fattening management. However, methods to objectively evaluate diseases on farms using...

    Authors: Tsubasa Narita, Meiko Kubo, Yuichi Nagakura and Satoshi Sekiguchi
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:6
  48. To investigate the prevalence and evolution of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) at commercial fattening pig farms, a total of 1397 clinical samples were collected from a single fatte...

    Authors: Chao Li, Jing Zhao, Wansheng Li, Hu Xu, Bangjun Gong, Qi Sun, Zhenyang Guo, Jinhao Li, Lirun Xiang, Yan-dong Tang, Chaoliang Leng, Qian Wang, Jinmei Peng, Guohui Zhou, Huairan Liu, Tongqing An…
    Citation: Porcine Health Management 2024 10:5