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Biosecurity I: Relative importance of different precautions

This is the first of a series of articles written by Tom Alexander for www.3tres3.com which we would like to publish again here as a way of paying homage and showing gratitude for his invaluable collaboration.

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PRRS Biosecurity

Trailers contaminated with PRRSV can serve as a source of infection for naïve pigs. Therefore, sanitation for livestock trailers and transport vehicles is considered a high priority when it comes to biosecurity practices.

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PRRS: Transmission via direct and indirect routes (1/2)

In this second part the direct routes (infected pigs and contaminated semen) and indirect routes (fomites and transportation vehicles) of PRRSV are tackled, as is the persistence of the virus because the persistence of the infection is a characteristic of PRRSV infections in pigs and plays a major role in the control and eradication of the disease.

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