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− | |q4=What clinical signs are generally associated with ''Blue eye disease '' in pigs? | + | |q4=What clinical signs are generally associated with ''Blue eye disease '' in all ages of pigs? |
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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. |
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| *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. |
− | |l4=Blue Eye Disease#Introduction | + | |l4=Blue Eye Disease#Clinical Signs |
− | |q5=What causes ''Blue eye disease '' in pigs? | + | |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#Introduction | + | |l5=Blue Eye Disease#Clinical Signs |
− | |q6=What causes ''Blue eye disease '' in pigs? | + | |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 causes ''Blue eye disease '' in pigs? | + | 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#Introduction | + | |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. |
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| |q8=What causes ''Blue eye disease '' in pigs? | | |q8=What causes ''Blue eye disease '' in pigs? |
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