Session 42. Health issues and immunocompetence in pig production

Date: 27 August ‘09; 08:30 - 12:30 hours
Chairperson: Chadd (UK)

 

Theatre Session 42

• Modulation of immunological status of piglets: influence of food contaminant such as mycotoxins
  Oswald, I.P.

• Using mathematical models to unravel some mysteries of host-pathogen interaction in mammals: insights from a viral disease in pigs
  Doeschl-Wilson, A. and Galina-Pantoja, L.

• Effect of spray-dried porcine plasma and plasma fractions on performance of Salmonella typhimurium-challenged weaned pigs
  Bruggeman, G., Rodríguez, C. and Polo, J.

• Analysis of the pathogen spectrum and risk factors associated with coliform mastitis in sows
  Gerjets, I., Reiners, K. and Kemper, N.

• What matters to a sow in a farrowing system: the needs of lactating sows
  Ursinus, W.W. and De Greef, K.H.

• Shoulder ulcers in sows: causes of variation
  Mattsson, B., Ivarsson, E., Holmgren, N. and Lundeheim, N.

• Shoulder sores are inherited
  Lundgren, H., Zumbach, B. and Lundeheim, N.