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Disease Information
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. 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. 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 More Photos of the signs that are seen in post-mortem samples of pigs with PMWS and PDNS.
PMWS Research ArchivesPublished Thursday, May 01, 2008: J Vet Med Sci. 2008 May;70(5):497-500.A piglet with concurrent polioencephalomyelitis due to porcine teschovirus and postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome. Takahashi M, Seimiya YM, Seki Y, Yamada M. A piglet developed respiratory distress followed by difficulty in standing and unsteady gait. The lesions were characterized by polioencephalomyelitis with the predominant distribution in the brain stem, as well as lymphocyte depletion and histiocyte infiltration with cytoplasmic inclusion bodies in the lymphoid tissues throughout the body and interstitial pneumonia. Porcine teschovirus (PTV) antigens were found in the former lesions and porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2) in the latter two lesions. PTV genes were detected from the diencephalon. The results suggest that the piglet was concurrently affected with polioencephalomyelitis due to PTV and postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) associated with PCV2. They also suggest that the immunosuppressive condition developing in PMWS may have facilitated the infection of the brain with PTV. To continue reading this article please click here Have you published information? To add please email the details |







