| survey of porcine proliferative enteritis in the tohoku district of japan. | a survey of proliferative enteritis (pe) in pigs at a meat processing plant was conducted using polymerase chain reaction (pcr) testing methods. during the investigation period, 227 of 83,717 pigs brought to the meat processing plant from iwate, fukushima, miyagi, niigata, and yamagata prefectures displayed characteristic general pathological features in terminal ileum, including mucosal hypertrophy and reticulation of serosal surface. of these, 179 cases were further examined in the laboratory. ... | 2004 | 15187367 |