Clinical case: Acute cases of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus in a sow farm and nursery
None of the employees on this farm had ever seen TGEv before, but were concerned that is what they were seeing.
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None of the employees on this farm had ever seen TGEv before, but were concerned that is what they were seeing.
In May 2013 a sow farm in Indiana (USA) broke with PEDv. In mid March 2014, scour were observed in the onsite nursery and finisher. In the subsequent week, PEDv was diagnosed of the same strain (99.9 % homology) and the virus moved into the farrowing house.
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