Difference between revisions of "Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea Flashcards"
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| What type of virus causes porcine epidemic diarrhoea? | Coronavirus
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| What other porcine disease is closely related, but antigenically different to, PED?? | Transmissible Gastroenteritis (TGE)
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| In what age of pig is disease most severe and mortality highest? | Neonatal pigs less than one week old.
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| What post-mortem finding is common in finishing pigs with PED and is also a cause of sudden deaths in infected pigs? | Back Muscle Necrosis
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| When should pigs be euthanased if virus isolation is to be performed for diagnosis? | During the acute phase of disease, less than 24h after the onset of diarrhoea.
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| What is an effective way of shortening the length of a disease outbreak on a farm using natural immunity? | Spreading virus contaminated faeces onto pens containing pregnant sows to stimulate lactogenic immunity to protect their litters.
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