Porcine Ileitis

Prevention and Control of Porcine Proliferative Enteropathy (“Ileitis”)

Porcine proliferative enteropathy is an enteric disease, primarily affecting young growing pigs and associated with the end of the small intestine i.e. the ileum, hence, it is more commonly called ‘ileitis’. The proliferative lesions can also extend down into the caecum and proximal colon. The disease is caused by the obligate, intracellular-living bacterium, Lawsonia intracellularis, named aft...

Regional Ileitis

Evaluation of tylosin tartrate in drinking water for treatment of porcine proliferative enteropathy (ileitis)

Materials and methods: The study consisted of three treatments (Nonchallenged– unmedicated, Challenged–unmedicated, and Challenged–medicated), with six pens of six pigs per treatment (N = 108 pigs). Pigs 28 days old were challenged orally on Days 0 and 1 with L intracellularis. Drinking water medicated with tylosin tartrate (Tylan Soluble Powder; Elanco Animal Health, Indianapolis, Indiana) was...

Lincomycin-medicated feed for the control of porcine proliferative enteropathy (ileitis) in swine

Methods: A total of 312 commercial crossbred pigs at two sites were randomly assigned to receive lincomycin in feed at either 44 or 110 ppm, or no treatment. On 2 consecutive days, each pig was inoculated orally with Lawsonia intracellularis in the form of porcine intestinal mucosal homogenate. Animals were observed until clinical signs of disease were seen, then pigs assigned to treatment grou...

Meckel's ileitis versus Crohn's ileitis: diagnosis using balloon enteroscopy.

An 18-year-oldman presentedwith a selflimiting episode of abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea for 5 days. During the following year, he reported similar episodes. We performed a colonoscopy that showed normal colonic mucosa with erythema and a few erosions at the ileum. Histology revealed a nonspecific inflammatory infiltrate in the lamina propria. Hewas treated with prednisolone with initial sy...