INVESTIGATION OF LEPTOSPIRA SEROVARS IN PIGS IN ENGLAND AND WALES: DEFINITION AND DETECTION OF INFECTING AGENTS - The Pig Journal by the Pig Veterinary Society

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Pig Journal Volume: 54
Publication date: November 2004

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INVESTIGATION OF LEPTOSPIRA SEROVARS IN PIGS IN ENGLAND AND WALES: DEFINITION AND DETECTION OF INFECTING AGENTS
S. Williamson, C. Gaudie, K. Murray, C. Dalley and M. Woodward

Abstract
This paper describes an ongoing 3-year DEFRA-funded project undertaken by the Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) into leptospira serovars in pigs in England and Wales.

This was partly prompted by lack of recent investigations into pathogenic leptospira species infecting pigs, highlighted by an upsurge in pig infertility in 2002/2003. Its aim was to discover better methods of identifying leptospiral infection in pigs, as well as characterising such isolates. Although not an epidemiological study, results may well influence future studies in this field.

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