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Classical swine fever (CSF) or hog cholera (also sometimes called pig plague based on the German word Schweinepest) is a highly contagious disease of swine (Old World and New World pigs). [4] It has been mentioned as a potential bioweapon .
Suis, a Latin adjective referring to the pig, may refer to: Swine brucellosis, an infection affecting pigs, known as Brucella suis; Chlamydia suis, an infection affecting pigs; Pseudomonas suis, a bacterium that causes pneumonia in pigs; Streptococcus suis, a pathogen affecting pigs; Trichuris suis, a worm species used in helminthic therapy
It causes disease in poultry, [2] cattle, [3] horses, [4] and pigs. [5] Most notably, it is the agent that causes porcine exudative epidermitis, also known as greasy pig disease, in piglets. [6] S. hyicus is generally considered to not be zoonotic, [1] however it has been shown to be able to cause bacteremia and sepsis in humans. [7] [8]
Swine influenza was first proposed to be a disease related to human flu during the 1918 flu pandemic, when pigs became ill at the same time as humans. [69] The first identification of an influenza virus as a cause of disease in pigs occurred about ten years later, in 1930. [70]
The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (pl.: swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is named the domestic pig when distinguishing it from other members of the genus Sus. It is considered a subspecies of Sus scrofa (the wild boar or Eurasian boar) by some authorities, but as a distinct species by others.
Streptococcus suis is a peanut-shaped, Gram-positive bacterium, and an important pathogen of pigs. Endemic in nearly all countries with an extensive pig industry, S. suis is also a zoonotic disease, capable of transmission to humans from pigs.
Haematopinus suis, the hog louse, is one of the largest members of the louse suborder Anoplura, which consists of sucking lice that commonly afflict a number of mammals. H. suis is found almost solely on the skin surface of swine, and takes several blood meals a day from its host. [1]
Brucella suis is a bacterium that causes swine brucellosis, a zoonosis that affects pigs. The disease typically causes chronic inflammatory lesions in the reproductive organs of susceptible animals or orchitis, and may even affect joints and other organs. [1] The most common symptom is abortion in pregnant susceptible sows at any stage of ...