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Necrotic hepatitis with hepatic parenchyma infiltrated with gas bubbles is detected in a sudden dead sow during post-mortem examination. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

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A lactating sow is found with widespread raised rhomboid lesions on the skin. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

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This sow had poor body condition, was anaemic and was found dead in the pen. The stomach had a dark black content inside. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

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There is bloody diarrhoea and mortality in 3 days old piglets. The small intestine of post-mortemed piglets is dark red, haemorrhagic and filled with bloody fluid. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

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There is profuse yellowish scour, ill thrift and high mortality during the first 72 hours of life. What is the most likely cause of this condition?

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An outbreak of sudden deaths and coughing is detected in 10 weeks old pigs. Post-mortem examination detects necrotizing pneumonia with fibrinopurulent exudate of the peritoneal and thoracic cavities. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

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Week of 21-May-2025Photo of the week

There is an outbreak of sudden deaths of 6 weeks old pigs. At post-mortem examination the pericardial sac is distended with straw-coloured fluid that contains fibrin strands. The heart has areas of necrosis. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

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The whole litter of piglets is trembling and shacking. What is the cause of this condition?

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Several weaner pigs show clinical signs of diarrhoea and loss of body weight from the age of 8 weeks. At post-mortem examination, there is mucohaemorrhagic diarrhoea and enlargement of the Peyer patches in the intestinal lining. What is the cause?

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    Week of 30-Apr-2025Photo of the week

    Bulging irregular masses detected in the oral mucosa of the lower lip in a 2 weeks old piglet. What is the most likely cause of this condition?

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    Twenty gilts are found dead in the same building with cyanosis of the lower parts of the body and salivation. What is the cause of dead?

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    Cranioventral lung consolidation is detected at post-mortem examination of the lungs of pigs with persistent coughing associated with lack of appetite. What is the most likely cause of this lesion?

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    There is an increase of sudden death mortality in growing and finishing pigs. Post-mortemed pigs have the loops of gut distended with gas, have a deep purple colour and filled with heavily blood stained liquid. What is the most likely cause of this lesion

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