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Improving Sick Pig Management

2014-02-12 22:14:00| National Hog Farmer

By James F. Lowe, DVM, MS, DABVP (Food Animal) Albers, IL Managing respiratory disease is one of the most common and most vexing problems that producers face. In swine, respiratory disease is almost always a multifactorial problem, with multiple infectious agents contributing to the clinical presentation. In the biological milieu of the upper respiratory tract and airways, environmental stressors and novel infectious agents change commensal or endemic organisms into pathogens. read more

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