Anna Romagosa

Thorough monitoring and a highly practical contingency plan helped minimise the impact of a PRRS infection at a GTC.

This second article on the assessment of truck cleaning and disinfection describes how to carry out and evaluate the results of microbiological validation and adenosine triphosphate detection.

What are the most important points to include when auditing the cleaning and disinfection of a truck that has transported pigs? In this article we focus on visual inspection.

This article describes what the "ideal" wash station for cleaning animal transport vehicles would look like, with the highest standards.

Exposure during acclimatization can be considered the first dose of a vaccine, and pre-farrowing exposure its booster.

We are talking about PRRSV, M. hyo, PCV2, App and swine influenza virus.

The isolation and acclimation period is not negotiable, it is an investment.

Gilts are the population most likely to excrete M. hyo during lactation because they will probably have become infected within 200 days prior to their first farrowing.

Over the last several years, new sampling, monitoring and diagnostic tools for the swine industry that are faster, simpler and more cost effective have been developed and validated. One of these techniques is the sampling and use of oral fluids (saliva) as specimens for diagnostics in swine.