Risk factors causing postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) onset in Swiss pig farms
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Risk factors causing postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) onset in Swiss pig farms.
Postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) was epizoozic between 2003 and 2008 in Switzerland. Nevertheless, infectious risk factors including porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) were missing at all or were seen only sporadically (enzootic pneumonia and actinobazillosis). In a case-control study, 30 farms with PMWS affected pigs were compared to 30 inconspicious f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Schweizer Archiv für Tierheilkunde
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0036-7281,1664-2848
DOI: 10.1024/0036-7281/a000379