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Table 2 Results from gross pathology, bacteriology, serology and virology from seven outbreak herds (from 1 to 7) and seven non-outbreak herds (from 8 to 14)

From: A descriptive study of acute outbreaks of respiratory disease in Norwegian fattening pig herds

Herd no.

Number of samples

Pleura gross pathology

No. of pigs

Lung gross pathology

No. of pigs

Bacteriologya

No. of pigs (%)

Serology

No. of pigs (%)

Virology

RT-qPCR

on pooled OF sample

Lungs/serum/OF

Acute lesionb

Chronic lesionc

Acute lesiond

Chronic lesione

APP culturef

APP seroconver-siong

SIV sero-conversion

PCV2 detectionh (category)

SIV detection

Pleura

Lung

1

5/10/1

5

5

4 (80)

5 (100)

3 (30)

18,000 (mod)

2

3/10/1

3

3

1i

3 (100)

3 (100)

9 (90)

1(10)j

9700 (low)

3

5/10/1

4

1

5

5 (100)

5 (100)

6 (60)

1500 (low)

4

3/10/1

2

3

2 (67)

3 (100)

5 (50)

< 10 (low)

5

4/10/1

4

4

4 (100)

4 (100)

10 (100)

19,000 (mod)

6

5/10/1

5

5

5 (100)

5 (100)

6 (60)

55,000 (mod)

7

3/10/1

2

1

3

3 (100)

3 (100)

k

602 (low)

8

3/10/1

1

0

0

4 (40)

58,000 (mod)

9

3/10/1

1

1

0

1 (33)

0

16,000 (mod)

10

4/10/1

1

0

0

2 (20)

220,000 (mod)

11

4/10/1

0

0

1 (10)

430,000 (mod)

12

3/10/1

0

0

8 (80)

850,000 (mod)

13

4/10/1

0

0

4 (40)

15,000 (mod)

14

3/10/1

1

0

1 (33)

1 (10)

5270 (low)

  1. OF, oral fluids; APP, Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae; PCV2, Porcine Circovirus type 2; PCR, reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction; SIV, Swine influenza virus; mod, moderate virus concentration
  2. aSwabs from lesions on pleura and lung tissue in right and left, cranial and caudal lobe. If there were no macro-pathological lesions, swabs were collected from pleura, left cranial lobe and right caudal lobe, respectively
  3. bFibrinopurulent pleuritis
  4. cFibrous pleuritis
  5. dDemarcated, firm, deep red lung tissue with hemorrhage
  6. eChronic necrotic areas and abscess formation
  7. fGrowing on lung, pleura and/or pericardium
  8. gProportion of total sample size, in most herds there were seropositive individuals at first sampling, leaving the true population at risk smaller
  9. hDNA copies per 200 uL
  10. iAcute lesion also present
  11. jIn this herd, 2 (20%) pigs had a decreasing serum level of SIV antibodies
  12. kUnable to identify individual pigs at second sample due to missing unique identifiers