Special Issue "Porcine Herd Health Management"

A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Pigs".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Vasileios Papatsiros
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Department of Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Thessaly, 43100 Karditsa, Greece
Interests: pig; porcine herd health management; porcine medicine; swine diseases; animal welfare; reproduction; vaccinology; alternatives to antibiotics
Dr. Dimitris A. Gougoulis
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Department of Animal Husbandry and Nutrition, Veterinary Faculty, University of Thessaly, 43100 Karditsa, Greece
Interests: dairy cattle internal medicine; small ruminant internal medicine; farm animal husbandry; animal welfare
Dr. Eleni D. Tzika
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Associate Professor of Porcine Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: pig; porcine herd health management; porcine medicine; swine diseases; animal welfare; vaccinology; alternatives to antibiotics
Dr. Panagiotis Tassis
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Clinic of Farm Animals, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54627 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: pig; porcine herd health management; porcine medicine; porcine reproduction; swine diseases; animal welfare; vaccinology; alternatives to antibiotics; mycotoxins; mycotoxin adsorbents

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Designing and communicating health strategies for swine herds requires a very different approach to that used for individual animals. Health disorders in swine farms are generally caused by multiple factors, including infectious and non-infectious agents. For this reason, the clinical picture of health problems in swine farms results usually from the interaction of pathogens, management and environmental factors.

Moreover, health management plays a key role in the productivity of farms. In field conditions, veterinarians have to develop and follow a herd health program, including special issues on diagnosis, treatments, vaccinations, nutrition and biosecurity. Herd health management is also important for the producers in order to ensure the health status and the productivity of the farm. Therefore, it is important to understand the fundamental terms of herd health management strategies in order to monitor and review health issues, risk factors and diagnostic tools that can be used to improve the health and productive parameters of swine farms.

Original manuscripts that address any aspects of porcine herd health management are sought for this Special Issue. Topics of special interest are porcine herd health management, porcine medicine, swine diseases and reproduction, genetics, housing, nutrition and epidemiology. Additional topics include aspects of animal welfare and ethics, legislation, food safety and biosecurity.

Dr. Vasileios Papatsiros
Dr. Dimitris A. Gougoulis
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • porcine herd health management
  • porcine medicine
  • swine diseases
  • reproduction
  • animal welfare
  • nutrition
  • epidemiology and biosecurity

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Maternally Derived Antibody Levels Influence on Vaccine Protection against PCV2d Challenge
Animals 2021, 11(8), 2231; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11082231 - 29 Jul 2021
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Piglets from a porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) stable farm of low and high levels of maternally derived antibodies (MDA) against PCV2 were vaccinated either with a whole virus type or a PCV2 ORF2 antigen-based commercial subunit vaccine at three weeks of age. [...] Read more.
Piglets from a porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) stable farm of low and high levels of maternally derived antibodies (MDA) against PCV2 were vaccinated either with a whole virus type or a PCV2 ORF2 antigen-based commercial subunit vaccine at three weeks of age. Two non-vaccinated groups served as low and high MDA positive controls. At four weeks post vaccination, all piglets were challenged with a PCV2d-2 type virus strain and were checked for parameters related to vaccine protection over a four-week observation period. MDA levels evidently impacted the outcome of the PCV2d-2 challenge in non-vaccinated animals, while it did not have a significant effect on vaccine-induced protection levels. The humoral immune response developed faster in the whole virus vaccinates than in the subunit vaccinated pigs in the low MDA groups. Further, high MDA levels elicited a stronger negative effect on the vaccine-induced humoral immune response for the subunit vaccine than for the whole virus vaccine. The group-based oral fluid samples and the group mean viraemia and faecal shedding data correlated well, enabling this simple, and animal welfare-friendly sampling method for the evaluation of the PCV2 viral load status of these nursery piglets. Full article
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