Veterinaria Digital - 10/06/2017

Avian necrotic enteritis is an infectious disease due to the growth of Clostridium perfringens in the intestinal mucosa. It is a sporulated bacterium resistant to thermal treatments up to 120ºC, so it is not eliminated by pelletization process, is able...

Tucídides - 3/06/2017

Ucidides (Alimos -460, Athens -395) wrote in his work History of the War of the Peloponnese Book III 81_83, the following: "Because in different cities the leaders of the parties, appealing on both sides to the seduction of programs according to their...

Veterinaria Digital - 3/06/2017

Although the presence of oral plaques in the tongue or in the palate of birds has traditionally been attributed to the presence of mycotoxins of the sesquiterpene group, there are other causes that must be taken into account to establish a differential...

Veterinaria Digital - 28/05/2017

The immune system of birds, unlike the immune system of mammals, does not have regional lymph nodes, so avian infections rapidly become septicemic, only with the effect of high body temperature as a mechanism to contain the diffusion of the microoganism....

Veterinaria Digital - 21/05/2017

Porcine streptococcal infection is caused by Streptococcus suis, a frequent saprophyte of pigs' respiratory, reproductive and digestive tracts, which needs environmental and immunosuppressive causes to cause disease (this is also why antibiotic...

Veterinaria Digital - 13/05/2017

Porcine pneumonia caused by Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, previously referred to as Haemophilus pleuropneumoniae, causes different symptoms depending on the age of the affected animals and the severity of the infection of other immunosuppressive...