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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 .
Feedback is a common practice used in the pork industry where infected deceased pigs and their manure are fed to breeding pigs. It is also called controlled oral exposure or sometimes oral controlled exposure. It is done in an attempt to make the breeding pigs garner some degree of immunity to circulating diseases. [1]
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.
In pigs, a swine influenza infection produces fever, lethargy, discharge from the nose or eyes, sneezing, coughing, difficulty breathing, eye redness or inflammation, and decreased appetite. [8] In some cases, the infection can cause miscarriage. However, infected pigs may not exhibit any symptoms. [9]
This pathway depends on the medical doctor’s ability to identify potential antibiotic resistance before prescribing treatment to a patient affected by food-borne illness. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] If the bacteria causing the illness is resistant to the drug the physician recommended, then the illness will not be improved by the medication.
Staphylococcus hyicus commonly infects pig herds worldwide due to its global distribution. [1] It can be found on asymptomatic carrier pigs at sites such as the skin, mucosa of nasal cavity, conjunctiva, and genitals (vagina of sow and prepuce of boar). [1] [9] Gram positive cocci in clusters.
Trichinosis, also known as trichinellosis, is a parasitic disease caused by roundworms of the Trichinella genus. [1] During the initial infection, invasion of the intestines can result in diarrhea, abdominal pain, and vomiting. [1]
Respiratory infection is usually asymptomatic in pigs more than two months old, but it can cause abortion, high mortality in piglets, and coughing, sneezing, fever, constipation, depression, seizures, ataxia, circling, and excess salivation in piglets and mature pigs. Mortality in piglets less than one month of age is close to 100%, but it is ...