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Can an exit shower reduce what swine workers carry on their skin?
In ten swine workers, the skin microbiome shifted markedly during the workday and the exit shower partially reversed those changes.
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Are E. coli from diarrheic piglets more often multidrug resistant?
Among weaned piglets in Catalonia, multidrug-resistant E. coli were more frequent in diarrheic animals than in apparently healthy animals.
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In sows, which factors are associated with higher antimicrobial use in Finland?
Across 48 Finnish herds, antimicrobial use in sows varied widely and was associated with herd size, herd type, and internal biosecurity score, without establishing causality.
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Can a clinical guideline actually reduce antimicrobial use against S. suis?
A peer-learning and e-learning intervention was associated with substantial reductions in antimicrobial use on farms with S. suis problems.
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Did antimicrobial use really decline on Swiss pig farms?
In Switzerland, active ingredient use per pig declined from 2018 to 2021 while indicators based on treatment days or treatment incidence increased.
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Is enhanced hygiene enough to reduce antimicrobial resistance in nursery pigs?
Enhanced hygiene did not reduce overall resistant E. coli prevalence in this study, although fecal blaTEM-1 abundance differed between groups.
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How has PEDV evolved ten years after its arrival in the United States?
U.S. PEDV sequence analysis showed predominance of non-S-INDEL viruses and two recent clades, while limited contemporary sequencing constrained stronger conclusions.
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Does a positive M. hyopneumoniae PCR simply detect DNA from dead bacteria?
In this experimental model, DNA from inactivated M. hyopneumoniae did not persist at detectable levels, unlike viable organisms.
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Do all PRRSV variants have the same infectivity?
Three PRRSV variants differed in experimental infectivity, with L1C.5 requiring fewer infectious units to infect half of the pigs.
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Does mixed-age weaning favor PRRSV circulation in the nursery?
In this study, batches from herds using mixed-age weaning had a substantially higher risk of PRRSV positivity than batches managed all-in/all-out.
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Can Sanger sequencing mask a wild-type PRRSV strain after vaccination?
In mixtures containing modified-live vaccine and wild-type PRRSV, ORF5 Sanger sequencing primarily represented the dominant viral population and could mask a minority strain.
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What can near-real-time PRRSV surveillance in Ontario reveal?
Diagnostic laboratory data supported rapid PRRSV trend monitoring in Ontario while highlighting the importance of metadata quality and limits of RFLP classification.