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Vaccination
Management
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.
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.


PMWS Research Archives

Published Thursday, September 01, 2005: International Conference on Animal Circoviruses and Associated Diseases, European Society for Veterinary Virology
Development of the immune system in the neonatal piglet and its interaction with PCV2 infection.
BAILEY M
The immune system of neonatal piglets undergoes a very rapid and massive development. This drastic expansion seems to be one of the factors that interact with porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2) infection to trigger postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS). It was suggested that the lymphoid depletion and immunosuppression observed in PMWS-affected pigs could be the consequence of the mechanisms limiting the development of piglets' immune system.



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