Nicolai Rosager Weber

Introduction:Antimicrobial resistance testing of enterotoxic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is used as a diagnostic decision tool for selecting classes of antibiotics for treatment in pigs. Resistance testing is often done on isolates from faecal samples collected from diseased case pigs with the advantage of high certainty of analysing E. coli stains that has caused disease in the individual pig. The ob ...

Background  The Danish pig production industry is characterized by high levels of health and productivity. In 2018, the Danish production reached 32.5 million pigs, of which 18 million were slaughtered in Denmark, while 14 million piglets were exported to mainly Germany and Poland for further fattening. The export of growing pigs began in 2004 and the demand for Danish weaners has increased ...