PMWS & PCVD
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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. 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 Friday, April 29, 2011: Can Vet J - v.52(4); Apr 2011Unusual Central Nervous System Lesions in Slaughter-Weight Pigs with Porcine Circovirus Type 2 Systemic Infection Richard Drolet, François Cardinal, Alain Houde, and Carl A. Gagnon Porcine circovirus type 2 systemic infection was diagnosed in 2 slaughter-weight pigs based on postmortem examination. The infection was associated with unusual central nervous system lesions characterized by a multifocal lymphohistiocytic to granulomatous meningoencephalomyelitis with giant cell formation. The role of these nervous system lesions in the development of the clinical signs in these pigs remains uncertain. To continue reading this article please click here Have you published information? To add please email the details |
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