Assessment and quantification of post-weaning multi-systemic wasting syndrome severity at farm level

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-28

  Alarcon, Pablo ^a   Velasova, Martina ^a   Werling, Dirk ^a   Stärk, Katharina D C ^a   Chang, Yu Mei ^a   Nevel, Amanda ^a   Pfeiffer, Dirk U ^a   Wieland, Barbara ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Morbidity; PCV2 PCR; PMWS severity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CIRCOVIRUS; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOSPITALIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; POSTWEANING MULTISYSTEMIC WASTING SYNDROME; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEROTYPING; SWINE; UNITED KINGDOM; WEANING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CIRCOVIRUS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; MALE; PORCINE POSTWEANING MULTISYSTEMIC WASTING SYNDROME; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEROTYPING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWINE; WEANING;

ANIMALIA; CIRCOVIRUS; PORCINE CIRCOVIRUS 2; SUIDAE;

EID: 78650307815     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2010.09.022     Document Type: Article

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