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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
Vaccination strategies for the control of circoviral diseases in pigs.
CHARREYRE C, BESEME S, BRUN A, BUBLOT M, JOISEL F, LAPOSTOLLE B, SIERRA P, VAGANAY A
Vaccination appears to be the most efficient way of preventing porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2)-induced diseases in pigs. MERIAL studied the efficacy of a vaccination scheme in sows and their piglets under laboratory conditions. An inactivated oil adjuvanted PCV2 vaccine (CIRCOVAC®) was administered intramuscularly to gilts at 5 and 2 weeks before breeding and 2 weeks before farrowing. It was shown that this vaccine was safe, highly immunogenic and induced a very good protection against PCV2 infection in piglets born to vaccinated sows. These results were confirmed in field conditions in very large numbers of animals. These trials showed that this vaccine reduced PMWS-mortality in pigs. The growth rate appeared to be more homogenous and the global mortality rates were reduced by about 50% in most of the farms involved.


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