| an outbreak of urticarial form of swine erysipelas in a medium-scale piggery in kiambu district, kenya. | this report concerns an outbreak that occurred during july/august 1997. ten pigs from a herd of 181 pigs in a medium-scale, semi-closed piggery in kiambu district, kenya, contracted the clinical disease. the main clinical findings in affected pigs included: fever (40.5-41.8 degrees c), prostration, inappetence, dog-sitting posture, abortion, erythema and raised, firm to the touch and easily palpated light pink to dark purple diamond-shaped to square/rectangular spots on the skin around the belly ... | 1998 | 9760400 |