Pig Industry Technical Articles
Article published the May 2, 2022:
INTRODUCTION Antibiotics have given significant contributions to the human food production chain during their almost 80 years of use. Such contributions include a reduced incidence of bacterial disease, improve...
Article published the April 25, 2022:
IntroductionThere are four forms of phytic acid (inositol hexakisphosphate, InsP6), which have been identified in nature, myo, neo-, scyllo- and D-chiro-, that differ in their stereochemical conformation (Fig. ...
Article published the April 25, 2022:
IntroductionPost-weaning diarrhoea (PWD) is a significant enteric disease causing considerable economic losses for the pig industry. Among several etiological risk factors, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETE...
Article published the April 25, 2022:
IntroductionSwine production systems have dramatically changed in the last three decades, and the livestock industry is facing many new challenges today. Among others, this industry has to continually adapt to ...
Article published the April 8, 2022:
Introduction: There are two registered vaccines available (Clostriporc A, Enteroporc A, IDT Biologika GmbH) to prevent suckling piglet diarrhea caused by Clostridium perfringens type A (CpA). These are based on...
Article published the April 8, 2022:
INTRODUCTIONAccording to new concepts about human health and increase on protein demand there was significant improvement in carcass quality of pigs to supply market which seeks a pork lean meat. Thus, it shoul...
Article published the April 8, 2022:
BackgroundPorcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) is an enveloped single-stranded positive sense RNA virus belonging to the Order Nidovirales, the family Coronaviridae and the genus Alphacoronavirus (Saif et al....
Article published the April 8, 2022:
Immunometabolism is the study of immunity and metabolism as an integrated system. The prototypical organ for such study is the gut. Central to the proper and optimum functioning of the gut, thus its immunometab...
Article published the April 8, 2022:
IntroductionThe use of enzymes in modern non-ruminant production has become universal. This is due to the extensive benefits observed on the productivity of both poultry and swine with its use. Although most fe...
Article published the March 18, 2022: