A study on the severity and relevance of porcine circovirus type 2 infections in Dutch fattening pigs with respiratory diseases

International audience ; This study was set up to get more insights in the severity and relevance of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) infections in Dutch fattening farms in an endemic PCV2-situation with no clinical signs of post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS). In part A of the study, in total 29 commercial fattening farms with varying percentages of pneumonia and pleurisy at slaughter were examined. Blood samples were collected at random by cross-sectional sampling; 10 in the age of 10-12 weeks, 10 at the age of 16 weeks and 10 blood samples at the end of the finishing period (... Mehr ...