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PubMed1997

Risks and economic consequences of introducing classical swine fever into The Netherlands by feeding swill to swine.

An effective animal disease prevention and eradication programme is of great importance for meat-exporting countries such as the Netherlands. If a serious outbreak of disease were to occur, the eradication measures required by the European Union and a possible ban on meat exports would have severe economic consequences. However, historical and experimental information on which these programmes can be based is scarce. Furthermore, until recently, an integrated approach which combined the various aspects of outbreaks and risks with economic consequences was lacking. This paper describes a project based on such an integrated approach. The project covered the elicitation of expert knowledge and the development of the virus introduction risk simulation model (VIRiS). VIRiS integrates objective and subjective information concerning risks and consequences of virus introduction, and thus presents policy-makers with a useful tool for the evaluation of existing prevention programmes and possible alternatives. VIRiS is illustrated for classical swine fever. A comparison is made between the current situation and a hypothetical situation where the risk factor 'swill feeding' is completely eliminated.

Animal Feed↗
PubMed1975

Passive immunity in transmissible gastroenteritis of swine: intramuscular injection of pregnant swine with a modified live-virus vaccine.

Nine pregnant swine were intramuscularly injected with a modified live-virus transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE) vaccine at approximately 6 and 2 weeks before parturition. The TGE antibody levels in milk whey rapidly decreased within a few days after parturition, and the antibodies were mainly, if not solely, of the immunoglobulin G (IgG) class. Nursing newborn pigs were challenge exposed with virulent TGE virus when 2 to 4 days old. All pigs in 8 of the 9 litters became affected with typical signs of TGE. Of the pigs nursing vaccinated sows, 55% died, and of the 9 vaccinated sows, 8 became affected after challenge exposure of their litters. Subsequently, the antibody titers in serum and milk markedly increased in all 9 sows, with the antibody in milk being predominantly of the immunoglobulin A (IgA) class. Serum samples of prenursing newborn pigs from vaccinated sows did not contain detectable TGE antibodies. The capability of the vaccinated sows to provide only limited passive immunity to their suckling pigs was considered to be due mainly to the low titer and class (IgG) of TGE antibody existing in the milk of the sows at the time the newborn pigs were challenge exposed.

Animals↗
PubMed1979

[Preliminary results of an atiepizootic field test using EDTA-Na extract vaccine from Escherichia coli strains pathogenic to swine in swine production industrial units].

An anti-epizootic field test was applied to industrialised pig farms in the region of Wrocław, Poland, to test the effectiveness of a pentavalent EDTA (calcium disodium edetate)--sodium vaccine extracted from Escherichia coli strains with pathogenicity to swine. The vaccine had been received from a centre in Berlin-Buch, GDR. The vaccine failed to provide any protection, when orally applied to nursed piglets. However, both morbidity and mortality were reduced and, thus, an anti-epizootic effect on nursed piglets produced, when the vaccine had been injected intramuscularly to the pregnant mother animals, prior to farrowing. In weaned piglets morbidity was sucessfully reduced by both oral as well as intramuscular administration.

Administration, Oral↗
PubMed2002

[Selection for disease resistance in domestic ruminants and swine by indicator traits as well as marker and causal genes--a review. Part 1: Short introduction to immunogenetics of MHC and non-MHC genes and special immunogenetics of cattle and swine].

The introduction deals with immunogenetic investigations on the field of life-stock. The main chapter is outlined as a tabular overview of current opportunities of the application of indicator traits as well as marker and causal genes in breeding for disease resistance in cattle, sheep, goats and swine. In the discussion of the second part, emphasis was layed on diseases of small ruminants in central and western Europe. Indicator traits are discussed with respect of their advantages and disadvantages. The rigorous selection of specific traits is connected with an increase of the number of homozygotes. In contrary, pathogens do undergo mutations, thus escaping the host's immune system. Out of this point of view it is advisable, to set on selection very cautiously. The role of technologies of modern immunogenetics is pointed out in respect of constructing disease resistant animals.

Animals↗
PubMed1990

Cardiac function and morphology of Hanford miniature swine and Yucatan miniature and micro swine.

The use of miniature swine in biomedical research is increasing; however, a comparison of cardiac function and morphology between strains has yet to be characterized. The purpose of this project was to examine comprehensive hemodynamics and cardiac morphology of three groups of ten normal, 4 months old, age-matched Yucatan miniature (MINI) pigs, Yucatan micropigs (MICRO) and Hanford (HAN) miniature pigs, 5 males and five females per group. Closed chest cardiac catheterization under equivalent conditions was performed followed by post mortem cardiac morphometry. Mean arterial pressure was significantly greater in the Hanford group when compared to both the minipig and micropig pigs (HAN: 89 +/- 4; MINI: 48 +/- 3; MICRO: 53 +/- 2 mmHg). Pulmonary vascular resistance was significantly different between the three groups (HAN: 9 +/- 1; MINI: 60 +/- 12; MICRO: 111 +/- 29 dyne x sec/cm x m2). The Hanford strain had a significantly smaller heart weight to body weight ratio than the other two groups (HAN: 4.6 +/- 1.0; MINI: 5.7 +/- 0.1; MICRO: 5.5 +/- 1.0). Variations in cardiovascular parameters occur among these strains and should be considered when constructing experimental designs.

Animals↗
PubMed1986

Survival of Macracanthorhynchus ingens in swine and histopathology of infection in swine and raccoons.

Animal husbandry aimed at preventing Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus infections in swine is not successful in preventing exposure to Macracanthorhynchus ingens, and it is probable that pigs occasionally acquire acanthocephalans of that species. In some pigs, M. ingens survived 2 weeks and grew several millimeters. In such cases, destruction of villi, erosion of epithelium, leukocytic infiltration, and altered cytological structure at attachment sites accompanied the infection. Penetration was limited to the submucosa, and the effects were not as severe as those occurring in the presence of M. hirudinaceus, which enters the muscularis.

Acanthocephala↗
PubMed1985

Platelet and fibrinogen kinetics in healthy and African swine fever-affected swine: [75Se]selenomethionine-labeling study.

Platelet and fibrinogen survival times were determined in healthy pigs and in pigs infected with African swine fever (ASF) virus. Cohort labeling with [75Se]selenomethionine was performed. The platelet survival time in healthy pigs was 5.3 +/- 0.7 days, and the fibrinogen survival time was 6.7 +/- 0.8 days. Early deaths and profound thrombocytopenia prevented calculation of accurate platelet and fibrinogen survival times in ASF virus-infected animals. The ASF virus-infected pigs died of extensive hemorrhage and effusions while thrombocytopenic; however, there was normal thrombocytopoiesis during infection, as measured by incorporation of the radionuclide into platelets. There was a slight decrease in plasma fibrinogen concentration when the platelet count decreased. A dysfunctional fibrinogen was present late in the infection.

African Swine Fever↗
PubMed1973

Bovine viral diarrhea virus in swine: characteristics of virus recovered from naturally and experimentally infected swine.

A noncytopathogenic field strain of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) was isolated from an Iowa farm brood sow and from her hysterectomy-derived, colostrum-deprived (HDCD) piglets. This field isolant was fully virulent for a neonatal calf. The NADL strain of BVDV was passaged through a series of HDCD piglets with no resultant loss of virulence for neonatal calves. Most of the BVD viral isolants recovered from pigs had been changed from a cytopathogenic biotype to a noncytopathogenic biotype. Circumstantial evidence points to swine as "carrier" hosts of BVDV.

Animals↗
PubMed1967

African swine fever. 3. The use of the agar double-diffusion precipitation test for the detection of the virus in swine tissue.

The agar double-diffusion precipitation test was applied successfully in the demonstration of ASF viral antigen in spleen and liver from swine experimentally infected by the oral route. Positive reactions were obtained with tissues collected as early as 24 hours after the onset of pyrexia and before other clinical manifestation of the disease. Cross-reactions were observed between the various ASF strains used in the study, making the test practical for routine diagnosis in which different strains may be encountered.

Animals↗
PubMedDate not supplied

[Apoptosis in the African swine fever virus-swine mononuclear phagocyte system].

Routine electronmicroscopic examination of interactions between African swine fever virus and mononuclear phagocytes showed signs of apoptosis as a morphological phenomenon and form of cellular death in an infected culture treated with defective interfering virus particles and in target cells under the effect of virus specific cytotoxic T-lymphocytes. The morphology of induced apoptosis in the aforesaid virus-cell system is illustrated and described in detail.

African Swine Fever Virus↗
PubMedDate not supplied

[Procoagulant activity in swine leukocytes, infected with the swine classical plague virus].

An increased level of the procoagulant activity (PCA) has been observed in porcine leukocytes in vitro infected with virulent or vaccine strains of hog cholera virus in comparison with intact cells. PCA was similarly induced in infected leukocytes from swine immune to hog cholera virus. Increased PCA levels were detected in culture medium with leukocytes from intact and immune animals infected in vitro with both virulent and vaccine strains of hog cholera virus in comparison with the PCA levels in culture medium with intact cells.

Animals↗
PubMed1999

Peripheral tolerance to class I mismatched renal allografts in miniature swine: donor antigen-activated peripheral blood lymphocytes from tolerant swine inhibit antidonor CTL reactivity.

Studies utilizing partially inbred miniature swine have demonstrated that a short course of cyclosporin A leads to indefinite survival of two haplotype class I mismatched renal allografts. In the present study, we have examined peripheral regulatory mechanisms that may be involved in maintenance of tolerance by coculturing PBL from long-term tolerant animals with naive recipient-matched PBL in cell-mediated lympholysis assays. We show that PBL from tolerant animals, primed in vitro with donor Ag, suppress antidonor CTL reactivity by naive recipient-matched PBL. Suppression was not observed when PBL from naive animals, primed with donor-matched PBL, were cocultured with PBL from a second naive animal, nor did PBL from either tolerant or naive recipient-matched control animals, primed with third-party Ag, suppress the generation of anti-third-party CTL by a second naive animal. The suppression was cell dose-dependent, radiation-sensitive, required cell-to-cell contact not reversed by the provision of exogenous IL-2, and associated with lower levels of IL-2R expression on the suppressive effector group (particularly the CD8 single positive cells) when compared with the control effector group. These data indicate an association between the presence of peripheral regulatory cells demonstrable in vitro and the maintenance of tolerance to renal allografts.

Animals↗
PubMed1982

Systemic and regional blood flow distribution in unanesthetized swine and swine anesthetized with halothane + nitrous oxide, halothane, or enflurane.

In order to study the distribution of cardiac output during various anesthetic regimens, we measured regional organ blood flow using 15 micrometers diameter radionuclide-labeled microspheres injected into the left atrium. Studies were carried out in nine pigs during resting unanesthetized state (control), during halothane (inspired concentration = 1.25 per cent) + nitrous oxide (50 per cent) anesthesia, during halothane (inspired concentration = 2.25 per cent) anesthesia, and during enflurane (inspired concentration = 4.0 per cent) anesthesia. The order of the last two treatments [halothane (2.25 per cent) and enflurane (4.0 per cent)] was randomized among the nine pigs. All anesthetic steps employed intermittent positive-pressure ventilation to maintain PaCO2 close to control values. Animals were allowed to recover towards the control state before changing to the next anesthetic regimen. Forty-five minutes were allowed for equilibration with each anesthetic regimen before hemodynamic measurements were made. In unanesthetized resting swine blood flow received by brain, cardiac ventricles, kidneys, liver (via hepatic artery), gastrointestinal tract, and skeletal muscle was 63.70 +/- 5.56, 128.56 +/- 14.92, 280.89 +/- 19.72, 21.95 +/- 3.25, 148.55 +/- 15.29 and 13.76 +/- 4.12 ml . min-1 . 100 g-1, respectively (mean +/- SEM). Corresponding values for the percentage of cardiac output received by the brain, cardiac ventricles, kidneys, liver (via hepatic artery), and gastrointestinal tract were 1.13 +/- .08, 3.04 +/- 0.13, 12.95 +/- 1.54, 4.27 +/- 0.76, and 18.71 +/- 0.91 per cent, respectively. Cardiac output and mean arterial blood pressure decreased significantly from control values with each of the three anesthetized steps. The decrease in cardiac output was greatest with the halothane anesthesia and least with halothane + N2O. Blood flow per unit weight of the cardiac, renal, and splanchnic tissues decreased significantly with each anesthetic regimen whereas brain blood flow and hepatic arterial blood flow were unaltered from control values. Thus, the per cent cardiac output received by the brain had increased with halothane (119 per cent) and enflurane (102 per cent) anesthesia while it was unaltered from the heart, renal, and splanchnic organs. Percentage of total cardiac output received by liver via the hepatic artery increased by 162 per cent during halothane anesthesia and 133 per cent during enflurane anesthesia, when compared to control values. During halothane + nitrous oxide anesthesia, the per cent of cardiac output going to the brain was not increased significantly. It is concluded that cardiac output as well as individual organ/tissue blood flow was better maintained during halothane + nitrous oxide anesthesia in comparison to halothane or enflurane anesthesia.

Animals↗
PubMed2005

Rolling-circle amplification of Torque teno virus (TTV) complete genomes from human and swine sera and identification of a novel swine TTV genogroup.

Multiply primed rolling-circle amplification is a novel technology that uses bacteriophage phi29 DNA polymerase to amplify circular DNA molecules, without the need for prior knowledge of their sequences. In an attempt to detect Torque teno virus (TTV), rolling-circle amplification was used to amplify DNA extracted from eight human and four pig serum samples. All samples gave high molecular weight (>30 kb) amplification products. By restriction endonuclease digestion, these products generated DNA fragments whose sizes were consistent with those of human TTV (3.8 kb) and swine TTV (Sd-TTV; 2.9 kb) genomes. Two TTV isolates derived from a single AIDS patient, as well as two Sd-TTV isolates derived from a single pig, were characterized by complete nucleotide sequencing. One of the Sd-TTV isolates showed very low (43-45 %) nucleotide sequence similarity to the other Sd-TTV isolate and to the prototype isolate Sd-TTV31, and could be considered the prototype of a novel genogroup.

Adult↗
PubMed1985

The swine histocompatibility system SLA: serological studies in the common Swiss and Danish swine breeds.

Alloantisera were produced in common Swiss and Danish swine breeds by immunization with leucocytes or skin-grafts. Out of the 126 antisera, 66 were chosen for further study based on titrations employing lymphocytes from unrelated pigs typed with French SLA antisera (Vaiman, Chardon & Renard, 1979). The 66 selected antisera and the French reagents defining 26 SLA specificities were used to type lymphocytes from 595 unrelated pigs of the common Swiss and Danish breeds. The reaction-patterns of the French, Swiss and Danish antisera were adequately correlated for the French SLA specificities Nos FJ 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 19, 20 and 24 and for the haplotypes FJ 15.1.18 and FJ 5.4. In addition, a cluster of correlated Danish and Swiss antisera characterized a new specificity, provisionally designated CPH 31. This specificity was frequent in the Danish Landrace pigs. Using the reagents identified in this report, the segregation of SLA markers was studied. Back-cross families demonstrated segregation of 15 distinct SLA haplotypes of which 14 are common in French Landrace or Large White. Differences were found in haplotype frequencies in both the Swiss and the Danish Landrace and Large White breeds.

Animals↗
PubMed2003

Structure of swine vesicular disease virus: mapping of changes occurring during adaptation of human coxsackie B5 virus to infect swine.

The structure of swine vesicular disease virus (SVDV) was solved and refined at a 3.0-A resolution by X-ray crystallography to gain information about the role of sequence changes that occurred as this virus evolved from the parental human pathogen coxsackievirus B5 (CVB5). These amino acid substitutions can be clustered in five distinct regions: (i) the antigenic sites, (ii) the hydrophobic pocket of the VP1 beta-sandwich, (iii) the putative CAR binding site, (iv) the putative heparan sulfate binding site, and (v) the fivefold axis. The VP1 pocket is occupied by a branched pocket factor, apparently different from that present in the closely related virus CVB3 and in other picornaviruses. This finding may be relevant for the design of new antiviral compounds against this site. Density consistent with the presence of ions was observed on the fivefold and threefold axes. The structure also provided an accurate description of the putative receptor binding sites.

Adaptation, Physiological↗
PubMed1991

Active principle of swine prostate extract: II. Effect of a peptide isolated from swine prostate extract on rat prostate.

Previously, we purified a substance from swine prostate extract (PE) that had been reported to have therapeutic effect on benign prostatic hypertrophy. The purified substance (PPE) suppressed 3H-testosterone uptake into the prostate in castrated rats. The present study was carried out to examine the effect of PPE on the weight of accessory sexual organs including the prostate and biochemical parameters in the prostate of normal and/or castrated and testosterone-treated rats. 1) In normal rats, the p.o. administration of PPE daily for a total of 30 days did not affect the prostate weight, but reduced the citric acid content in the prostate. The treatment had little or no influence tissue O2 uptake, aconitase activity or isocitrate dehydrogenase activity in the prostate. 2) In castrated and testosterone-treated rats, the p.o. treatment with PPE for 15 or 30 days reduced the weight of the prostate as well as the total citric acid, DNA and RNA contents in prostatic tissue. However, these biochemical parameters per tissue weight were not obviously affected except for the citric acid content. These findings suggest that PPE is one of the active principals of PE for the therapeutic efficiency on benign prostatic hypertrophy, probably due to its suppressive effect on excessive uptake of androgen by the prostate.

Aconitate Hydratase↗
PubMed1979

[Control of parturition in swine. 2. Study results of parturition synchronization in swine with the prostaglandin analog cloprostenol (I.C.I. 80.996: Estrumate)].

Premature parturition was induced in 115 of 121 sows (95%) that had been given injections of 150 microgram or 200 microgram of "Estrumate", a prostaglandin analogues, on the 112th and 113th days of gestation. The average time that elapsed between injection and parturition of those 115 animals was 27.2 +/- 7.7 hours, with no difference being observed between gilts, on the one hand, and old sows, on the other. The time of gestation of the treated animals was shortened with significance from 114.6 +/- 1.6 days for the controls to 113.2 +/- 0.4 days. The average duration of parturition proper was 3.7 +/- 2.2 hours, the average litter being 11.2 +/- 3.3 piglets. The total number of piglets born was 1,320, with stillbirths accounting for 4.17%. The average weight at birth, 1,330 +/- 210 g, and the weight at weaning did not differ from weight figures recorded from the controls. The courses of parturition and puerperium were in agreement with normal biological standards. The sows treated were tested for their blood counts close to full term and for their endometrial histomorphology after weaning, with no side effects of "Estrumate" treatment being established. The behaviours of progesterone, 17-beta oestradiol, and cortisol in serum of "Estrumate"-treated sows were investigated, and congruence was established between spontaneous and prostaglandin-induced parturitions, which was in agreement with international literature. The conclusion is that 150 micrograms of 'Estrumate", administered to swine, after the 11th day of gestation has very good labour-inducing effects and ensures normal physiological parturition and piglet development.

Animals↗