Effects of oral vaccination against Lawsonia intracellularis on growing-finishing pig's performance in a pig production unit with endemic porcine proliferative enteropathy (PPE)

Deutsche Tierarztliche Wochenschrift

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 232-235

  Almond, P K ^a   Bilkei, G ^a,b  

^a Bilkei Consulting ^*

^b Bilkei Consulting AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Culling; Daily gain; Enteropathy; Mortality; Swine; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE; LIVE VACCINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE INFECTION; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; LAWSONIA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RANDOMIZATION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; VACCINATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; LAWSONIA BACTERIA; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VACCINATION; VACCINES, ATTENUATED; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; LAWSONIA INTRACELLULARIS; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 33745683989     PISSN: 03416593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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