Fermented soybean meal may become a suitable and economic protein source for weanling diets according nutrient digestibility and intestinal health.

Sow laminitis may frequently occur, causing production of low quality hoof horn.

Arginine and other amino supplementation in gestating gilts improve farrowing and litter performance in low prolificity sows (≤14 total piglets born).

Farms with appropriate management, feeding and housing conditions have reduced levels of mounting and aggressive behaviour.

Fine grinding improves feed efficiency for meal but not for pelleted diets although pelleting improves average daily gain in growing pigs.

This assessment reflects the current situation and should be repeated if pleuromutilin consumption increases substantially, resulting in increased prevalence of mobile, easily transmissible resistance mechanisms.

Fiber coming from wheat bran has higher negative impact on protein and fat digestibility than soybean hulls in growing pigs.

The need for developing PCV2-specific ELISA methods is urgent to evaluate PCV2 antibody level in exclusion of PCV1 antibody interference after PCV2 vaccination.

Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398 (LA-MRSA CC398) is causing an increasing number of skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) in Denmark and other European countries with industrial pig production. Yet, its impact on MRSA bloodstream infections (BSIs) has not been well studied.

The use of purified pig immunoglobulins may clearly reduce diarrhea at similar extend than ZnO in weanling pigs.

A novel pestivirus species was discovered in a piglet-producing farm in Austria during virologic examinations of congenital tremor cases. The emergence of this novel pestivirus species, provisionally termed Linda virus, in domestic pigs may have implications for classical swine fever virus surveillance and porcine health management.

Premature births increase the number of intra-partum deaths and result in lower birthweights, the presence of apnoea, and severe metabolic alterations in piglets.

Organic Se supplementation in sow diets may improve antioxidant capacity and reproductive performance.

The aim of this study was to develop an epidemiological and economic model to determine the costs of PRRS for an individual pig farm.

Here we analyzed the molecular variations and antigenic differences among the C-strain-based commercial vaccines of different origins from different manufacturers in China, and reevaluated the vaccines against the emerging subgenotype 2.1d strain of CSFV.

Alfalfa silage may be used as suitable AA and protein source for growing pigs for organic pig production, although its methionine content could also be interesting as alternative feed ingredient for conventional pigs.

The batch and the interaction between treatment and batch had highly significant influences on tail losses at the end of rearing.

Epidemiological investigations were conducted on a case series of six Senecavirus A (SVA)-affected breeding herds in the United States. Multiple potential routes of introduction were identified.

Vitamin D deficiency in growing pigs can be cheaply overcome by moderate sunlight exposure.

These findings demonstrate that diagnosis of M. hyosynoviae-associated arthritis can be influenced by the clinical isolate, and provides a study platform to investigate the colonization and virulence potential of field isolates.

The reduction in infectious agents in the air by the EPI technology could potentially decrease the microbial exposure for pigs.

Encapsulated organic acid supplementation may improve performance due to an improvement of intestinal health and immunity after weaning.

Reducing the use of antimicrobials in food-producing animals may be achieved through more widespread use of RLP. Regional intravenous limb perfusion of an antimicrobial to treat lameness is feasible in swine.

The greatest frequencies of resistance were observed to tetracycline, trimethoprim/sulphamethoxazole and streptomycin with the highest levels of resistance observed in isolates from first-stage weaned pigs.

Sow metabolism during lactation is affected by arginine supplementation promoting litter weigh improvement.

This study showed that the novel variant PRRSV was HP-PRRSV, and it is therefore critical to monitor PRRSV evolution in China and develop a method for controlling PRRS.

PEDV transmission through contaminated PPE occurs rapidly under modeled conditions. Biosecurity procedures are recommended.

This review provides an update on bacteriocins and their potential for use in the swine industry.

Recombinant Ad5-O1Man is an effective, safe and cross-reacting vaccine that could potentially be used preventively and in outbreak situations, to control FMDV O Mya-98 lineage in swine.

A reduction of the environmental impact derived from pig production is possible by a suitable nutrient requirement adjust.

We review critical factors associated with reproductive performance of female breeding pigs, their lifetime performance and herd productivity in commercial herds. The factors include both sow-level and herd-level factors.

The objective of the research was to conduct semen parameter and conception rate analyses on the basis of growth rate and meat content.

Although the better sow and litter performance for group housed sows with electronic feeding system some improvements are still required in terms of body scratch and locomotion disorders.

The study objective was to characterize body temperature and activity changes in replacement gilts at the onset of estrus in order to provide initial data to develop a remote estrus detection system for commercial swine operations.

Dietary supplementation with microalgae as an alternative to antibiotic use was studied.

Pelleting diets and sodium metabisulfite supplementation previously to heat conditioning may reduce the negative impact of vomitoxin in nursery pigs.

These results further demonstrated the potential use of oral fluids for detecting FMDV genome, live virus, and viral antigens.

It is important to study the diversity of the strains of Yersinia enterocolitica in order to better understand the risk they represent for humans.

Dietary combination of probiotics, prebiotics and organic acids improve growth, health and immunity in fattening pigs.

In all three cases we characterized the genome of a new circovirus we called PCV3.

This study showed a massive occurrence of ST398-MRSA in two independent swine farms.

Fatty acid profile and sensorial properties of meat can be improved by dietary plant extract supplementation in growing pigs.

This study expands existing knowledge on the genetic diversity and evolution of PRRSV in Vietnam.

hCG stimulates growth of estrogenic follicles and CL function, and improves primiparous sow fertility during the summer months.

Sodium butyrate or a blend of formic and citric acid in feed may be considered as a cost-effective control measure to reduce Salmonella faecal shedding in commercial herds.

This trial showed the advantage, in an environmental point of view, to use 15% drainage openings on the solid part of partly slatted floors in pens for group-housed gestating sows.

We studied the change in amounts of antimicrobials prescribed for weaners and finishers in Danish herds duriong 2007-2013 following initiation of vaccination against five common endemic infections.

Soybean meal in weanling diets may be partially replaced by canola meal without affecting performance parameters but, canola meal quality has to be taken into account.

This study implies a metabolic adaptation of A. pleuropneumoniae to the porcine upper respiratory tract already during early infection.

Researchers from the IRTA-CReSA in collaboration with researchers from the Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam (the Netherlands), studied the susceptibility of different animal species to infection with MERS-CoV.

Coated sodium butyrate supplementation may improve immunoglobulin concentration in milk.

One of the goals of swine diet formulation is minimizing nitrogen (N) excretion as well as maximizing N retention.

There is an increasing concern in several European countries over the role that tuberculosis (TB)-infected wild boar may play in the progress of bovine TB eradication campaigns. In Spain, the wild boar is the main wild reservoir of tuberculosis.

Results indicate that B. hyodysenteriae has a high degree of serological heterogeneity that has probably differently developed in diverse geographical areas over time.

The LAMP assay established in this study provides a simple, specific, sensitive and rapid method of T. gondii genomic DNA detection, hence is expected to plays an important role in the monitoring of T. gondii contamination in various food products.

Compensatory Ca achievement in bone is achieved with high Ca finishing diets in pigs fed low Ca during the growing period.

This review summarizes data on the types of occupation-related infections caused by LA-MRSA CC398, the incidence of such infections as well as potential preventive strategies.

The study provided the first known report of clinical lung lesions and endocarditis in piglets due to Staphylococcus sciuri.

Organic acid supplementation in weanling diets improves piglet performance and reduced diarrhoea.

This study showed that oral fluid-based testing could provide an easy and “animal-friendly” approach to sample collection for nucleic acid and/or antibody-based surveillance of PEDV in swine populations.