HISTOPATHOLOGICAL CHANGES OF THE LYMPHOID TISSUES IN POSTWEANING MULTISYSTEMIC WASTING SYNDROME (PMWS) AFFECTED PIGS

D Cadar University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Mănăştur Street 3-5
L. B. Köbölkuti University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Mănăştur Street 3-5
A. Cságola Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Szent István University, Budapest, H-1143 Hungária krt. 23–25, Hungary
V. Miclaus University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Mănăştur Street 3-5
Marina Spinu University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Mănăştur Street 3-5
A. Ungvári University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Mănăştur Street 3-5
Mihaela Niculae University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Mănăştur Street 3-5
T Tuboly Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Szent István University, Budapest, H-1143 Hungária krt. 23–25, Hungary

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15835/buasvmcn-vm:64:1-2:2589

Keywords: histopathology, lymphoid tissue, pcv2, pmws

Abstract

Postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome, caused by porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2), is a recently described clinical condition which affects nursery and growing pigs (Segales and Domingo, 2002). PMWS was initially recognized in Canada in 1991 and nowadays is considered to be worldwide distributed. Macroscopic lesions associated with PMWS are quite unspecific, but histopathological lesions in lymphoid tissues (lymphocyte depletion with histiocytic infiltration) are almost unique for this disease (Allan, 2000; Harding, 1996).

Published

2008-12-02

Issue

Vol. 64 No. 1-2 (2007)

Section

Short comunications

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