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ACTUAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN BULGARIAN PIG INDUSTRY
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Keywords

infectious diseases
pig
Bulgaria

How to Cite

“ACTUAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN BULGARIAN PIG INDUSTRY” (2009) Archives of Veterinary Medicine, 2(2), pp. 3–16. doi:10.46784/e-avm.v2i2.214.

Abstract

At the moment the most important diseases for Bulgarian pig industry are classical swine fever and Aujeszky’s disease in respect of which we are obliged to meet the require ments of the European Union (EU) as well as Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome and Porcine circovirus type 2, which cause big losses on pig farms. According to the experts on pig diseases we are now in the era of multifactorial diseases. The emergence of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) and porcine cyrcovirus type 2 (PCV2) in the last 15 years also lead to alteration of the pig pathology and increased the importance of multifactor diseases. Also, the diseases important for pig production in Bulgaria are the diseases: porcine parvovirus (PPV), swine influenca virus (SIV), Mycoplasma hyopneumonia (M hyo) and Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (APP), the infections that of ten joined with above mentioned caus ative agents.

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