PQS - Swine paratyphoid ✅ Flashcards
Yellow, watery diarrhoea is a clinical sign of swine paratyphoid
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Salmonella Typhimurium can cause swine paratyphoid
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S. Typhimurium is found in the environment or other animals, S. Choleraesuis infects from pig to pig
Swine paratyphoid is mainly seen in suckling piglets
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Seen in 2-5 month old animals, but with severe predisposing factors it is also seen in older animals
Fever is a common clinical sign of swine paratyphoid.
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Focal inflammation and necrosis are a common postmortem lesions of fowl paratyphoid
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Swine paratyphoid is an acute disease
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Acute, generalised disease
Classical swine fever can predispose animals to swine paratyphoid
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Antibiotic treatment isn’t allowed in the case of swine paratyphoid
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We treat the septicaemia with Antibiotics
inflammation of the small intestine is a postmortem lesion of swine paratyphoid
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Gastroenteritis
Swine paratyphoid is caused by obligate pathogenic bacteria
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facultative pathogenic
swine paratyphoid has been eradicated from Europe
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Found worldwide
swine paratyphoid is most frequently seen in pigs between 2 and 5 months of age
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but with severe predisposing factors it is also seen in older animals
There is septicaemia in the case of swine parathyphoid
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Cyanosis is a clinical sign of swine paratyphoid
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Salmonella Choleraesuis can cause swine paratyphoid
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