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*General signs include anorexia, weight loss, reluctance to move, dehydration, periorbital and conjunctival swelling (chemosis) and purulent/serous ocular discharge and corneal opacity. | *General signs include anorexia, weight loss, reluctance to move, dehydration, periorbital and conjunctival swelling (chemosis) and purulent/serous ocular discharge and corneal opacity. | ||
*Neurological signs include tetraparesis, opisthotonus, dysmetria, proprioceptive disorders, tremors, nystagmus mydriasis, blindness, decreased or absent menace response and respiratory signs; tachypnea, dyspnea, and open mouthed breathing. | *Neurological signs include tetraparesis, opisthotonus, dysmetria, proprioceptive disorders, tremors, nystagmus mydriasis, blindness, decreased or absent menace response and respiratory signs; tachypnea, dyspnea, and open mouthed breathing. | ||
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| − | |q5=What | + | |q5=What clinical signs are associated with Sows? |
| − | |a5= | + | |a5=In sows the disease causes infertility, reproductive failures, embryonic mortality and return to oestrus in the first third of gestation and stillbirths, small litters and mummification in late gestation. |
| − | |l5=Blue Eye Disease# | + | |l5=Blue Eye Disease#Clinical Signs |
| − | |q6=What | + | |q6=What clinical signs are associated with piglets and weaners? |
| − | |a6= | + | |a6= Piglet and weaners suffer from prostration, hind limb stiffness, generalised weakness, muscle fasciculation’s, retarded growth, depression, excitation, head pressing, circling, hyperaesthesia, abnormal behaviour/aggression and coma. |
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| − | |q7=What | + | In piglets the disease also causes changes in hair coat (dull/rough), ocular erosions, enlarged distended bladder and constipation/reduction in faces or diarrhoea. |
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| − | |l7=Blue Eye Disease# | + | |q7=What clinical signs are associated with boars? |
| + | |a7=In the boar it causes male infertility, lack of libido, haemospermia, and orchitis with epidydimitis and swelling of the genitals. | ||
| + | |l7=Blue Eye Disease#Clinical Signs | ||
|q8=What causes ''Blue eye disease '' in pigs? | |q8=What causes ''Blue eye disease '' in pigs? | ||
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Revision as of 08:14, 25 June 2011
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| What causes Blue eye disease in pigs? | Blue-eye paramyxovirus (BEP - a negative sense single stranded RNA(ssRNA) virus.
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| In what systems are affected by Blue eye disease? | Systems:
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| What ages of pigs are affected by this disease? | All:
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| What clinical signs are generally associated with Blue eye disease in all ages of pigs? |
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| What clinical signs are associated with Sows? | In sows the disease causes infertility, reproductive failures, embryonic mortality and return to oestrus in the first third of gestation and stillbirths, small litters and mummification in late gestation.
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Link to Article | |
| What clinical signs are associated with piglets and weaners? | Piglet and weaners suffer from prostration, hind limb stiffness, generalised weakness, muscle fasciculation’s, retarded growth, depression, excitation, head pressing, circling, hyperaesthesia, abnormal behaviour/aggression and coma.
In piglets the disease also causes changes in hair coat (dull/rough), ocular erosions, enlarged distended bladder and constipation/reduction in faces or diarrhoea. |
Link to Article | |
| What clinical signs are associated with boars? | In the boar it causes male infertility, lack of libido, haemospermia, and orchitis with epidydimitis and swelling of the genitals.
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Link to Article | |
| What causes Blue eye disease in pigs? | Link to Article | ||
| What causes Blue eye disease in pigs? | Link to Article | ||
| What causes Blue eye disease in pigs? | Link to Article | ||
| What causes Blue eye disease in pigs? | Link to Article | ||