Helicobacter suis is present in US pigs and may be relevant to pig health and production

The use of lecithin in swine diets improve pork tenderness and of dressing percentage.

The addition of different sources of Se did not affect the immunoglobulin concentrations in the gilt or piglet.

The vaccine may have the potential to serve as a vaccine aimed to protect pigs from developing PMWS.

Increasing weaning age has positive health effects and increase growth performance between weaning and 10 weeks of age.

Nearly all tested animals were seropositive for antibodies against the hepatitis E virus (55/60, 91.7%).

Over the long term, the price margins of pork traders were more severely affected in contrast to that of the other traders’ profits.

Intestinal integrity, function, and metabolism can be compromised due to prolonged heat stress.

Pig industry trends from 2005 to 2010 indicate varied degrees of improvement for pig production traits.

The results demonstrated therapeutic effect of valnemulin in pigs with serious SD and did not show therapeutic effect of chelated zinc.

Stage of gestation is the critical point when the sows in a pen with electronic feeding system.

Increasing numbers of L. intracellularis log₁₀ bacteria/g faeces were significantly associated with decreasing average daily gain.

These results suggest that it may be possible to inactivate PEDV in the presence of feces by heating trailers to 160F for 10 minutes or by maintaining them at room temperature (68F) for at least 7 days.

This finding is a first step towards understanding the basis of strain antigenic specificity and opens new possibilities for the developing of molecular serotyping systems, which could assist in the diagnosis and control of the disease.

Supplementing resveratrol to weaned piglets could have beneficial effects on growth performance, immune function and the microbial ecosystem.

The main objective of this study was to further investigate this issue and determine if vaccination of older pigs would induce an earlier viremia and seroconversion.

The Ig immunocrit method is a simple and useful in assessing the initiation of colostrum and the nursing ability of sows, and the effect of these events on preweaning piglet mortality.

PR can still be considered as an endemic swine disease in the country, affecting about 40-50% of the commercial farms.

The use of a satiety-inducing flavour in diet may promote feed efficiency in fattening pigs.

The presence of multiple S Typhimurium genotypes in fattening pigs suggests that there were many sources of contamination at this stage.

The survey was completed by 3004 practitioners from 25 European countries.

The use of 0.5 g/Kg of fermented garlic powder in the diet may improve ADG and ADFI in weanling pigs.

Novel porcine bocaviruses (PBoV) have been identified in domestic and wild pigs in recent years but are of unknown relevance to date.

The use of DDGS in gestating diets may creat controversial response on animal behaviour depending on the housing system.

The results of this study indicate that parity influences the pre-natal development of piglets.

This was the first observation in Korea, bringing about the possibility that this virus may be prevalent in porcine farms.

This study demonstrates that type 2 PRRSV is more virulent than type 1 PRRSV in this experimental setting.

The extracts from Lippia spp. could be an effective antioxidant in pork meat.

In this study, intact and neonatally surgically castrated male pigs were compared along puberty for some immune parameters and hormone receptor expression in lymphoid organs.

Hypocalcemia is not a significant problem immediately post-farrowing in sows of all parities.

Prediction equations using the concentration of total P in MBM may be useful to estimate P and Ca digestibility in MBM fed to growing pigs.

The aims of this study were to characterize the epidemiology of recurrent swine influenza virus infections and identify their main determinants.

Infrared techniques appear promising for continuous temperature monitoring where changes in temperature are more important than individual temperature values.

Dietary valine supplementation increases serum albumin, IgM, IgG and prolactin concentrations.

Marbofloxacin may be useful to control the disease produced by H. parasuis both at individual and population basis although a complete elimination of the bacteria was not possible.

The plant extracts tested reduced diarrhea, and inflammation caused by E. coli infection, which may be beneficial to pig health.

The combination of SCFA and MCFA could act as gut flora modifiers to promote intestinal heath at weaning.

The results of the study supported the hypothesis that a new neonatal porcine diarrhoea was present in the investigated herds.

The present study showed that the physiology of piglets in the colostrum period was affected by IUGR status at birth, and their intermediary metabolism was altered due to different colostrum intakes.

These observations strengthen the hypothesis that selection for high meat production level might be associated with an increased susceptibility of animals to environmental stressors.

The data from this study have important implications for understanding the ongoing PEDV outbreaks in the United States.

Prenatal flavour exposure decrease neophobia for specific flavours.

These results may contribute to the improvement of the welfare and performance of growing-finishing pigs by a better knowledge of the influence of the rearing environment.

A significant decrease of susceptibility to antimicrobials and a significant increase of multi-resistant strains (classes II and III) of E.coli F4+ was observed from 2002 to 2011.

Oregano oil and ground cranberry pulp has a limited effect on the microbiological profile in pork.

FMDV serotypes O, A, and Asia 1 are endemic to countries in mainland Southeast Asia where regular outbreaks of FMD have been reported.

The ability of an anti-MRSA β-lactam antibiotic to stimulate allosteric opening of the active site opens an unprecedented realm for β-lactam antibiotic structure-based design.

Feed intake during lactation is a key factor on litter performance and subsequent successful productive live of the sow.

The results of this study indicate that both TTSuV1 and PoAstV4 have a high prevalence in fecal samples from pigs with clinical diarrhea in the United States.

Under the conditions of this study, more piglets are born during unsupervised hours when sows are induced on day 116 than when sows are induced on day 113.

Phytase supplementation in growing diets may improve P and Cu retention.

The results of this study can be used to quantify the effects of a sanitary challenge in growth models of pigs.

The restriction movement showed a positive effect in the reduction in mortality.

Zeolite-ZnO could be a suitable substitute for pharmacological addition of ZnO in weanling pigs.

This paper estimates that annual impact of FMD in terms of visible production losses and vaccination in endemic regions alone amount to between US$6.5 and 21 billion.

The systematic application of husbandry practices can significantly improve productivity, mortality and culling rates, and treatment costs in growing pigs.

Fermented grains reduce faecal noxious gas emission of growing pigs but has variable effects on growth performance and nutrient digestibility.

Results demonstrate that there are differences in the reproductive performance in gilts depending on their birth weight.

These data suggest that concentrations of skatole and androstenone can be reduced through genetic selection without negatively affecting important male fertility traits in Danish Landrace pigs.

Digestive efficiency in growing pigs may be a further selection item to take into account in new pig breeds.