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Influence of Diet on Experimental Swine Dysentery. 1. Effects of A Vitamin E and Selenium Deficient Diet Supplemented with 6.8 % Cod Liver Oil

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Sixteen growing pigs were fed a vitamin E and selenium deficient diet; half of the animals (Group 2) were given a daily supply of vitamin E and selenium. After having been fed these diets for 53 days, the pigs were infected orally with minced colonic material from cases with typical swine dysentery. This exposure resulted in outbreaks of swine dysentery in both groups. The incubation times were, however, distinctly shorter and the clinical symptoms much more pronounced in Group 1 than in Group 2. The patho^morphological lesions in the colon also differed between the 2 groups. In the pigs of Group 1 evident pseudomembraneous lesions were observed in the spiral colon. In Group 2, the colonic alterations consisted predominantly of a catarrhal enteritis; pseudomembranes occurred in a minor part of colon in only 4 pigs. Both the clinical and the chemical observations and the pathological findings indicated a much better vitamin E and selenium balance in the pigs of Group 2. It is concluded that the treatment with vitamin E and selenium in Group 2 greatly increased resistance to swine dysentery.

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Teige, J., Nordstoga, K. & Aursjø, J. Influence of Diet on Experimental Swine Dysentery. 1. Effects of A Vitamin E and Selenium Deficient Diet Supplemented with 6.8 % Cod Liver Oil. Acta Vet Scand 18, 384–396 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03548436

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