Question of the Day

Edema disease is caused by shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC).

Look for severe acute illness ranging from peracute death with no signs to CNS involvement with ataxia, paralysis, and recumbency in healthiest pigs one to two weeks after weaning.

Streptococcus suis could cause sudden death but would not cause diarrhea and would see polyserositis on necropsy.

Clostridium perfringens type C enteritis, also called enterotoxemia in other animals, is characterized by a HEMORRHAGIC diarrhea in one- to three-day-old piglets.

Porcine proliferative enteritis is principally a diarrheal disease of growing finishing (40- to 80-lb) pigs and young breeding pigs.

Epidemic transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE) in non-immune pig herds characterized by HIGH MORBIDITY and HIGH MORTALITY in piglets less than one week old.