Dr. Jaime Borrell Valls - 2/04/2020

One of the lessons derived from the current pandemic, due to coronavirus, is the need to identify potential biological dangers that nest in wild species that may become food or share domestic spaces with humans. It may be months, or even years, between...

MV. Júlia Pié Orpí - 31/03/2020

Coccidiosis in turkeys is a digestive disease of importance, not only because of its direct consequences, which include diarrhea, growth retardation and worsening of the feed conversion, but also because it represents an entrance gate for other...

Veterinaria Digital - 30/03/2020

Avian Infectious toxic hepatoenteritis: this infection is transmitted vertically and characterized, among other lesions, by bacterial hepatitis, with black-greenish lesions in the liver caused by bacteria from the yolk, which is not absorbed and was...

Biovet S.A. - 23/03/2020

Mycotoxins, metabolites generated by different species of fungi, are able to affect the production parameters in pigs. These include deoxynivalenol (DON), also known as vomitoxin, produced by the fungi of the genus Fusarium. The DON belongs to the group...

Veterinaria Digital - 23/03/2020

Urates in the heart: some disorders lead to renal failure and, consequently, accumulations of urates  in different viscera. Usually, they accumulate in the kidneys first, and later in other organs such as the heart, as observed in the picture. In the...

Veterinaria Digital - 17/03/2020

Ear necrosis in pigs: this syndrome usually takes place in weaned and fattening pigs, between 10 and 40 kg. Lesions start with a superficial vesicular dermatitis that can become hemorrhagic and cause deep necrotic ulcers with ischemia. It is a...