Sudden death caused by the acute form of gastric ulceration has developed into a widely recognised health and welfare problem. The importance of different triggering factors is poorly understood. The study was carried out ...

The farm animals, as ruminants and pigs, are primarily raised as food-producing animals, however they are also used for scientific and educational purposes. Given the wide range of diseases, they can suffer from, ensuring ...

Introduction: Diarrhoea in growing-finishing pigs is a common problem of commercial pig farms. Among many causative factors, porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is one considered an important pathogen in modern pig production. ...

The monitoring of antibiotic use in animals is a crucial element to ensure food safety. Themain goal of this study was to analyse the distribution of selected antibiotics to porcine oral fluid,as well as to demonstrate ...

This article describes current legal regulations on the use of animal proteins in animal feeding, with the special interest on general rules in BSE prevention and control. Now, after more than twenty years, the feed ban ...

Introduction: The aim of the study was to determine the genetic diversity of Echinococcus multilocularis in pigs in highly endemic areas in Poland, as well as to attempt to confirm the occurrence and geographical distribution ...

Although modern analytical methods developed for monitoring antibiotics in severalbiological matrices are easily available, none of them have been applied to evaluate the transferof tiamulin into sow milk. Therefore, this ...

In high-income countries, the hepatitis E virus (HEV) is considered an emerging threat causing autochthonous acute hepatitis in humans, with an increased number of reported cases over the last 10 years and related increased ...

Astroviruses (AstVs) are small RNA viruses characterized by a high mutation rate, the ability to recombine, and interspecies transmission, which allows them to infect a multitude of hosts including humans, companion animals, ...

BackgroundThe complex aetiology of gastric lesions in pigs remains largely unknown and effective preventive measures and pharmaceutical treatment of the disease have not been developed yet. Regardless of the fact that the ...