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Pig Journal Volume: 56
Publication date: November 2005

Proceedings Section

PORCINE RESPIRATORY DISEASE COMPLEX (PRDC) IN ITALY
M. Terrini

Abstract
The author describes the main characteristic of the Italian swine industry as the production of heavy pigs. In 2004, the total number of pigs raised in Italy was 8, 972, 000, which represented 5.9% of EU production. The porcine respiratory disease complex (PRDC) has been described in Italy. Updated data, resulting from analyses carried out in the pathology Departments located in the most pig-populated areas of Northern Italy, Lombardia and Emilia-Romagna, confirm the presence of porcine reproductive respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2), swine influenza viruses (SIV), Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (APP), Pasteurella multocida (PM), Streptococcus suis and Bordetella bronchiseptica. Specific figures about the most important aetiological agents are reported in this paper, as well as an update about M. hyopneumoniae epidemiology.

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