Feed additives that contained phosphoric acid, citric acid, or fumaric acid were the most effective in reducing virus survival.

Ear tagging causes a dramatic increase in cortisol levels compared with handling alone in piglets, which suggests that this procedure causes substantial distress.

Lonicera macranthoides supplementation in growing finishing diets may improve free amino acids content in fresh meat.

We detected a recently discovered pestivirus, termed atypical porcine pestivirus (APPV) in all these cases by RT-PCR.

The use of palygorskite in sow diets reduces oxidative stress in gestating sows.

These studies are the evidences that indirect transmission of PEDV through contaminated personnel, which occurs rapidly, and how fomite material and temperature impact viral stability over time.

We demonstrate the asymptomatic circulation of IAV-S in the Vietnamese pig population.

This study was aimed at evaluating the clinical protection, the level of Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) viremia and the immune response (antibodies and IFN-γ secreting cells (SC)) in piglets derived from PCV2 vaccinated sows and themselves vaccinated against PCV2 at different age, namely at 4, 6 and 8 weeks.

Food by-products rich in starch and low in fat may be useful to modulate fatty acid profile in heavy pigs slaughtered up to 150 kg.

Early parity number born alive classification effectively predicts later parity performance. Sows classified as high in both parity one and in parity two had larger litters in later parities.

The aim of the study was to determine both environmental and infectious factors, influencing occurrence of bacterial enteropathogens in suckling piglets.

Long periods of high ZnO supplementation in weanling pigs may modulate immune response by suppressing the cytokine gene expression in weanling pigs.

The antibody response and pattern of shedding of vaccine virus following vaccination with modified live genotype I or II porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) vaccines (MLVs) were investigated.

Post-cervical (pC) artificial insemination (AI) has been successfully developed for application in multiparous sows, although it has proved problematic in gilts. This study analyzes the use of pC-AI in gilts by two experiments.

Dietary phytogenic feed additive supplementation may reduce greenhouse gas emission in growing pigs without affecting performance.

The data present bronchial scraping as an equally effective or even better alternative to bronchoalveolar lavage fluid for detecting main porcine respiratory disease complex agents.

Immune response-related interactions between T. suis and O. dentatum were detected in co-infected pigs. These interactions reflect an antagonistic effect exerted by T. suis on O. dentatum populations.

Sow and litter performance in primiparous sows is directly affected by energy intake during gestation.

The results confirm that a full removal capacity for doxycycline cannot be reached through the long-term storage of farm fertilizers.

The results of this study suggest that metagenomic sequencing is a powerful tool for virus detection and characterization.

The spatial distribution of large-scale pig farms corresponds with that of commercial pig breeds, and spatial analysis indicated that these were concentrated in lowland urban or peri-urban areas, close to means of transportation.

This study provides descriptive information on the practice of piglet castration across 24 European countries.

Based on the results of this study, the pre-slaughter feed withdrawal before slaughter affects behaviour and meat quality in pigs.

Both AID and ATTD can be used to describe the digestibility of Ca for growing–finishing pigs.

Very few studies about the impact of microbial cleaning and administration during production on the
environment in animal houses is available. Our results showed that competitive exclusion by probiotic type
bacteria is not a valuable alternative for classical C&D.

Positive antibacterial effect of the combination of medium chain fatty acids and probiotics in weanling diets.

Of 30 environmental samples collected from a nursery room on our initial visit, 2 (7%) samples yielded 3 isolates: 2 ST 218 Escherichia coli and 1 Proteus mirabilis, carrying the metallo-β-lactamase gene blaIMP-27 on IncQ1 plasmids.

In general, all oxytetracycline doses used for the treatment of Lawsonia intracellularis infection resulted in reduced diarrhoea and Lawsonia intracellularis shedding after treatment.

Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids supplementation may be useful to stimulate puberty onset on gilts.

The differences in shedding pattern and cytokine and immune responses are important for studies of disease pathogenesis and assessment of vaccine protective efficacy.

Body weight and feeding system are determining factors for the welfare status, while group size was not proved to affect the welfare level under the studied conditions of pig fattening.

The optimal Trp:Lys ratio for modern sows during lactation ranges between 0.22 and 0.26.

Prolonging the vacancy period in nursery units to 10 days after disinfection with no extra biosecurity measures has no impact on the environmental load of total aerobic flora, E. coli, faecal coliforms, MRSA and Enterococcus spp..

Findings suggest that concentrated swine feeding operations amplified transmission of influenza during years in which H1N1 was circulating.

Pea protein isolate has higher AA digestibility than high protein sunflower meal for growing pigs.

The commercial combination of Duroc breed, control diet, and 115-kg slaughter weight showed a balance in terms of performance, carcass, and quality traits.

In the year following the outbreak, the same PRRSV strain was identified repeatedly in different regions of Austria. It can be speculated that the new strain has novel advantageous properties.

L-glutamine supplementation improves intestinal health, nutrient digestibility and performance in weanling pigs.

The current study demonstrated that the expression of some piglet-directed behaviour was influenced by the system in which a gilt was born and reared.

This study used oxytetracycline (OTC) as a model antibiotic to study antibiotic degradation behavior in manure under the above two OTC addition methods.

Oregano essential oil or quercetin supplementation improves the antioxidant status in finishing pigs under transport stress.

The present study provides novel data regarding the effects of bacterial contamination on boar sperm, suggesting that the presence of P aeruginosa affects the fertilizing ability of boar sperm by altering its ability to accomplish IVC.

Dietary choline deficiency induces alterations in plasma choline metabolites which are evident at the end of lactation. Betaine and select FAs in milk are sensitive to maternal dietary choline deficiency and day of lactation. Alterations in concentrations of these nutrients may affect early-life neonatal development.

A better fit of nutrient requirements in early lactation improves sow milk yield.

Our data shows that natural infection by contact induces remarkably high innate and adaptive immune response, although the animals were exposed to a very low virus dose.

Colostrum consumption, birth weights, preweaning growth rate, number weaned, and parity are associated with gilt development traits during later life.

Restricted feeding may improve lean percentage in growing pigs without a negative impact in welfare.

It can be concluded that immunocastration could be interesting in pigs intended for dry-cured ham elaboration because in males improved the feed conversion ratio with no penalization of carcass or meat quality.

Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae pre-infection affected neither the influenza virus replication nor the IFN-induced antiviral responses in lungs. However, it predisposed the animals to a higher inflammatory response to H1N1 infection.

Flavour inclusion in piglet diets is safe even at higher inclusion levels than those commonly used for the industry.

NADC30-like PRRSV has widely spread in China and could cause clinical disease on pigs.

A high avulation rate results in an moderate increase in the number of vital embryos at day 35 of pregnancy, but compromises development in the surviving embryonic/placental units, suggesting that the future growth and survival of the embryos might be further compromised.

Dietary herbs and fermented herb supplementation during the growing-finishing period improves meat quality in pigs.

This study identified preventable routes of MRSA CC398 introduction and transmission: human occupational exposure, trade of pigs and livestock transport vehicles.

The newly developed LFA allows rapid and reliable detection of ASFV, at field and laboratory level, providing a new useful tool for control programs and in situations where laboratory support and skilled personnel are limited.

Dietary essential fatty acid supplementation in sow during lactation affects further reproductive performance.

Betaine supplementation at 0.63% and 1.26% tended to increase sperm concentration in the ejaculates by 6% and 13%, respectively.

Collectively, SB supplementation could reduce the rate of gilts return to estrus, alter the composition of colostrum and enhance the growth rate of piglets.

Leaner carcasses are achieved with three-phase feeding than with single diet or multy-phase feeding.

In the presence of high MDA levels, piglets immunized with four commercial PCV2 vaccines showed a significantly reduction of PCV2 infected pigs, viral load...