Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome (PMWS)
Detection of a Novel Strain of Porcine Circovirus in Pigs with Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome
... Swine infectious agents, especially viruses, are potential public health risks associated with the use of pig organs for xenotransplantation in humans. Therefore, there is a need for better characterization of swine vi- ...
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Changes in CD4+, CD8+, CD4+ CD8+, and Immunoglobulin M-Positive Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells of Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome-Affected Pigs and Age-Matched Uninfected Wasted and Healthy Pigs Correlate with Lesions and Porcine Circovirus Type 2 Load in Lymphoid Tissues
... 1996), postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) has been reported worldwide (2, 4, 9, 11, 13, 22; ...This syndrome, which affects weaned and fattening pigs (8), is ...
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Eucaryotic Expression of the Nucleocapsid Protein Gene of Porcine Circovirus Type 2 and Use of the Protein in an Indirect Immunofluorescence Assay for Serological Diagnosis of Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome in Pigs
... Postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) is an emerging swine disease first described in Canada in 1991 (7, 13); subsequent outbreaks have frequently struck pig farms in North and ...
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Genetic Characterization of Type 2 Porcine Circovirus (PCV 2) from Pigs with Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome in Different Geographic Regions of North America and Development of a Differential PCR Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Assay To Detect and Differentiate between Infections with PCV 1 and PCV 2
... Postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) is an emerging disease in swine. Increasing evidence indicates that a variant strain of porcine circovirus (PCV), designated type 2 PCV ...
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Nucleotide Sequence of Porcine Circovirus Associated with Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome in Pigs
... Postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) is a recently recognized disease of young ...progressive wasting, dyspnea, tachypnea, occasionally, icterus and, in rare cases, ...
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Dynamics of serum antibodies to and load of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) in pigs in three finishing herds, affected or not by postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome
... Olvera A, Sibila M, Calsamiglia M, Segalés J, Domingo M: Comparison of porcine circovirus type 2 load in serum quantified by a real time PCR in postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome[r] ...
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An investigation of the aetiology and natural transmission of postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome in pigs : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Veterinary Studies in Epidemiology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... Since PCV2 infection alone cannot be responsible for expression of PMWS, there must either be an unidentified infectious agent (Lawton et al. 2004a, Lawton et al. 2004b), or a spectrum of known infectious agents and/or ...
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Detection of porcine circovirus type 2 and viral replication by in situ hybridization in primary lymphoid organs from naturally and experimentally infected pigs
... Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2), a circular single-stranded (ss) DNA virus, is recognized as the causative agent of postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS). PMWS is clinically ...
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Porcine circovirus 2 immunology and viral evolution
... as postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS), causes important economic losses in commercial pig farms due to increased mortality rates and negative impact on the growth of the ...
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Experimental Inoculation of Conventional Pigs with Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus and Porcine Circovirus 2
... Postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) is a disease of nursery and fattening pigs charac- terized by growth retardation, paleness of the skin, dyspnea, and increased mortality ...
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Vaccination of Dams Increases Antibody Titer and Improves Growth Parameters in Finisher Pigs Subclinically Infected with Porcine Circovirus Type 2
... Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is the obligate infectious agent in postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) of pigs. To control PMWS, we vaccinated dams at 4 and 2 weeks before ...
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Multiplex PCR for Detection and Typing of Porcine Circoviruses
... Postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) is an apparently new disease of 5- to 8-week-old pigs being diag- nosed with increasing frequency in Canada (4, 11, 15), the United States (2, ...
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Rist, Beate (2009): Beurteilung der Wirksamkeit einer Einfachvakzination bei Ferkeln in der 1. und 3. Lebenswoche mit Porcilis® PCV gegen das porcine Circovirus Typ 2 (PCV2) in einem Betrieb mit hohen maternalen Antikörpertitern.. Dissertation, LMU München: Tierärztliche Fakultät
... dem postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) scheint zurzeit den PCV2-bedingten Reproduktionsstörungen (SEGALÉS und DOMINGO, 2002b) die größte Bedeutung zuzukommen (ALLAN und ...
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Porcine circovirus diseases
... is postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS), which mainly affects pigs of 2 to 5 months of age, with progressive wasting, diarrhea and respiratory ...
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Kolb, Anna-Katharina (2009): Verlauf der mittleren Antikörperkonzentration von Haemophilus parasuis, Mycoplasma hyorhinis, PRRSV und PCV2. Dissertation, LMU München: Tierärztliche Fakultät
... Experimental reproduction of Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome in pigs by dual infection with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and Porcine Circovirus Type 2. (2006):[r] ...
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Characterization of a New Disease Syndrome Associated with Porcine Circovirus Type 2 in Previously Vaccinated Herds
... with postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome in different geographic regions of North America and development of a differential PCR-restriction frag- ment length polymorphism assay to ...
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Causes of Death among HIV Infected Adults Registered in Selected Anti Retroviral Therapy Centers in North Eastern India
... syndrome were the leading causes of death among HIV-infected patients in northeastern India. Tuberculosis has emerged as a leading cause of death among HIV-infected patients. Similar findings were noted in other ...
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nihms425647.pdf
... As of December 31, 2003 a total of 168 of the 356 study cases were known to be dead. A Cox proportional hazard analysis revealed that patients with a CD4+ cell count of less than 200/ml, or with antecedents of ...
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Human chorionic gonadotropin hormone prevents wasting syndrome and death in HIV 1 transgenic mice
... a syndrome characterized by skin lesions, wasting, and death, suggests that a maternal hormone(s) might be re- sponsible for protecting the fetus from developing the HIV wasting ...
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Differentiating between SIADH and CSW Using Fractional Excretion of Uric Acid and Phosphate: A Narrative Review
... The syndrome of inap- propriate anti-diuretic hormone (SIADH) and cerebral salt wasting (CSW) are characterized by hyponatremia and can be difficult to ...
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