Howells Veterinary Services, Easingwold, Yorkshire
With the batch concept in place the major events on a pig farm can be regimented into:.
Adenoviruses are medium-sized (70–100nm), double stranded DNA viruses that do not have a capsule (Hess, 2000; The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), 2012). They are classified into...
From Georgia 2007 to Thailand 2022, Greece 2022 and the Dominican Republic 2021, the same virus strain and sequence is recognised as ASF type 2 with minimal change to the virus. There have been no...
Areas of medicine storage, where veterinanians should be concerned, can be illustrated by a personal study that has taken place over 20 years (Carr personal observations) (Table 1)..
Pigs are prone to abscesses (Figure 2). Subcutaneous abscesses can be very large and may contain up to 6 litres of purulent material. The presence of an abscess can be confirmed by inserting a long...
PCV1 was recognised as a contaminant of porcine kidney cell lines (PK-15) in the 1970s. A range of common conditions was initially wrongly attributed to PCV1, e.g. stillbirths, mummified piglets,...