Publications
| spatiotemporal patterns and risks of herd breakdowns in pigs with postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome. | a retrospective cohort study of 116 british pig farms was undertaken to investigate the epidemiological risk factors associated with herd breakdowns with postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (pmws). farmers reported the pmws status of their herd (case definition 1) and, where applicable, when the disease was first suspected and what they observed; they described a prolonged increase in mortality in six to 16-week-old pigs that was not attributable to any disease known to be on their farm. ... | 2007 | 17545645 |
| characterisation of porcine circovirus type 2 in porcine circovirus disease cases in england and wales. | confirmed cases of porcine circovirus disease (pcvd) in great britain have shown a steady decline since the availability of porcine circovirus type 2 (pcv2) vaccines. however, pcvd is still occasionally diagnosed. the authors carried out a genotyping study to characterise pcv2 associated with confirmed pcvd cases in england and wales from 2011 to january 2016 (n=65). a partial fragment of pcv2 genome encompassing orf2 was amplified and sequenced from 45 cases of pcvd. the majority of sequences w ... | 2018 | 29051314 |