| [diagnosis of lawsonia intracellularis using the polymerase chain reaction (pcr) in pigs with and without diarrhea and other animal species]. | lawsonia (l.) intracellularis, an obligately intracellular bacterium, causes proliferative enteropathy (pe) in swine and, occasionally, in other animals. to determine the spread of the agent among german pig herds pooled fecal samples of five animals each of clinically normal hessian pig herds collected between november 1998 and february 1999 as well as feces (n = 1684) from individual animals representing 648 herds, sent to our laboratory by veterinarians from all parts of germany, were tested ... | 2003 | 14560442 |