Sinopsis

Swine enzootic pneumonia is a chronic respiratory disease caused by Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, producing high morbidity rates and great economic losses. This handbook attempts to update, condense and simplify the large amount of available information about swine enzootic pneumonia, including a high number of graphic contents to provide the veterinary surgeon with a handy tool to fully understand, treat, control and prevent this disease.

Índice

1. Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, the protagonist
A bit of history
Characteristics of the M. hyopneumoniae species
Pathogenesis of the M. hyopneumoniae infection
Disorders associated to the M. hyopneumoniae infection

2. What causes M. hyopneumoniae infection?
Clinical-pathological identification
Differential diagnosis
Sampling
Laboratory diagnostic techniques. Values and limitations

3. How and when does infection spread?
Distribution and prevalence
M. hyopneumoniae infection transmission
M. hyopneumoniae infection dynamics

4. What is known about strains?
Diversity of M. hyopneumoniae
How is the clinical situation affected by the strain diversity?

5. M. hyopneumoniae is causing me so much trouble... So now what?
Risk factors
Husbandry and housing conditions
Antimicrobial therapy
Vaccination

6. Eradication: reality or fiction?

7. A practical case