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A PMWS update (Jake Waddilove)
ABOUT PMWS & PDNS
National Pork Board PMWS Fact Sheet
About PDNS (Jake Waddilive)
CEI Emerging Disease Notices: PMWS / PDNS
Conference and meetings archive
Case Histories
Yorkshire Farm, UK - Mike Muirhead - Final Update, June 2002
Mike Muirhead's case history of a Yorkshire farm with PMWS and PDNS.
 
East Anglia Farm, UK - Philip Richardson
This paper charts the course and effects of the disease on a single herd as well as highlighting the economic impact.
Photographs
Clinical signs
Photos of the clinical signs that are seen generally in pigs with PMWS and PDNS. Includes skin lesions, enlarged lymph glands, wasting and dead pigs.
 
Post mortem (1)
Photos of the signs that are seen in post-mortem samples of pigs with PMWS and PDNS. Includes interstitial pneumonia, secondary bacterial infection, enlarged lymph nodes, oedema and intra cytoplasmic inclusions
 
Post mortem (2)
More Photos of the signs that are seen in post-mortem samples of pigs with PMWS and PDNS.


Latest PCVAD / PMWS News

Thursday, September 25, 2008
Proposals Invited on PCVAD
US - The National Pork Board is sending out a special call for proposals for PCVAD. The deadline for...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Oral Vaccination against Porcine Circovirus?
GLOBAL - Wang and colleagues have published a paper in Journal of Virological Methods, which suggests...
Friday, August 15, 2008
Porcine Circovirus Type 2 Can be Transmitted Orally
GLOBAL - T. Opriessnig and co-workers have published a paper showing that porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2)...
Friday, August 01, 2008
NADIS Veterinary Report and Forecast - July 2008
UK - The National Animal Disease Information Service (NADIS) is a veterinary based clinical reporting...

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Latest PMWS / PCVAD Technical Articles


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Latest Porcine Circovirus Research Papers

Published Sep 2008: Transboundary and Emerging Diseases - Volume 55, Issue 7, Date: September 2008, Pages: 273-283
Post-Weaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome and Other PCV2-Related Problems in Pigs: a 12-Year Experience
F. Madec, N. Rose, B. Grasland, R. Cariolet, A. Jestin
Post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) and other porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2)-related diseases have been reported throughout the world for about 10 years. The present paper reviews the knowledge acquired in different fields and is largely...

Published Sep 2008: Journal of Virological Methods, Volume 152, Issues 1-2, September 2008, Pages 112-116
Rolling-circle amplification for the detection of active porcine circovirus type 2 DNA replication in vitro
Paolo Dominic Navidad, Hao Li, Annette Mankertz, Brian Meehan
Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) infections in pigs have diverse clinical presentations and are considered economically important diseases worldwide. However, despite intensive research, the early pathogenesis of PCV2 and the primary target cells for...

Published Aug 2008: Research in Veterinary Science Volume 85, Issue 1, August 2008, Pages 197-200
Molecular diversity of Brazilian strains of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV-2)
Alessandra Marnie Martins Gomes de Castro, Adriana Cortez, Marcos Bryan Heinemann, Paulo Eduardo Brandão, and Leonardo José Richtzenhain
Porcine circovirus 2 (PCV-2) is associated with a broad range of syndromes. In this study, eight pig tissue samples from two Brazilian states were analyzed using six PCR primer pairs amplifying a 1705-bp fragment of the PCV-2 genome. The NJ distance-based...

Published Aug 2008: J. Gen. Virol., Aug 2008; 89: 1857 - 1865.
Protective immunity against porcine circovirus 2 by vaccination with ORF2-based DNA and subunit vaccines in mice
Hui-Gang Shen, Ji-Yong Zhou, Zhen-Yu Huang, Jun-Qing Guo, Gang Xing, Jia-Ling He, Yan Yan and Li-Yang Gong
The protective immune response against porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2) infection in mice was characterized using flow cytometric analysis (FCM), assays of antibody (of different IgG isotypes) and viraemia, and histopathological examination. An open reading...

Published Aug 2008: Vet Immunol Immunopathol. 2008 Aug 15;124(3-4):355-66. Epub 2008 May 4.
Characterization of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) infection in swine lymphocytes using mitogen-stimulated peripheral blood lymphocytes from healthy PCV2-carrier pigs.
Lin CM, Jeng CR, Chang HW, Guo IC, Huang YL, Tsai YC, Chia MY, Pang VF.
Information regarding the susceptibility of swine lymphocytes to PCV2 is rather limited. To further explore and characterize the PCV2 infection in swine lymphocytes, an in vitro model using concanavalin A (Con A)-stimulated peripheral blood lymphocytes...

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