Vaccination Reduces Fecal Shedding and Improves Carcass Quality in Pigs with Subclinical <i>Lawsonia intracellularis</i> Infections.

ABSTRACT: Background/Objectives: Lawsonia intracellularis is a bacterium that causes Proliferative Enteropathy, an enteric infection characterized mainly by diarrhea and growth retardation, leading to important economic losses. Acute and chronic infections are easily diagnosed, and their control by vaccination has been proven efficacious. However, subclinical infections, despite being very prevalent, often remain underdiagnosed and uncontrolled in practice. Scarce research is available on the control of subclinical infections by vaccination, and the benefit in these scenarios remains to be elucidated. Two field trials were carried out to (1) determine the association between the growth and fecal shedding of L. intracellularis in unvaccinated and intramuscularly vaccinated pigs i

SUBMITTER: Del Pozo Sacristan R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12300254 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature