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Table 1 Corresponding categories used for disease recordings at extended meat inspection (SHM) and meat inspection codes at routine meat inspection (RMI)

From: Comparison of recording of pericarditis and lung disorders at routine meat inspection with findings at systematic health monitoring in Danish finisher pigs

Objective

SHM

RMI

a)

i) Chronic pericarditis

I) Code 222: Chronic pericarditis

b)

ii) Chronic pleuritis

II) Code 289: Chronic fibrous pleuritis

c)

iii) Lungs with lesions

III) Code 258: Acute/subacute pneumonia with lung necrosis;

Code 271: Chronic pneumonia or lung abscesses (aerogenic);

Code 287: Fibrinous, sero-fibrinous, suppurative or putrid pleuritis (acute pleuritis);

Code 289: Chronic fibrous pleuritis