13 avr. 2020
Medico-legal technique dating the age of cutaneous wounds in pigs.
A Canadian-Italian Swine Cluster 2 and AgriInnovation project. The welfare of farm animals is improving, and many acts (travel...
1 avr. 2020
Infectious bovine bacteria detected in porcine lung infections in Quebec.
Ureaplasma diversum (U. diversum) is a bacterium considered infectious and that can cause abortions and respiratory diseases in cattle....
5 févr. 2020
Focus into the nose of pig farmers
There are approximately 600 communicable diseases between humans and animals. Knowing in detail the close links between the health of...
1 déc. 2019
Essential oils: a promising treatment for porcine respiratory infections
Swine pathogens cause significant economic losses for Canadian animal producers and there is an urgent need to identify novel...
1 nov. 2019
Fecal transplants in piglets: a promising pilot study
Several studies have demonstrated that the microbiota or microbial flora (all microbes living in the digestive tract, oral cavity, on...
29 oct. 2019
GUIDE ON RESEARCH PRIORITIES IN THE PORCINE SECTOR - HORIZON 2024
As part of the 2015-2020 Strategic Plan for the Quebec pork industry, a Research, Development and Transfer (RTD) Forum was held to...
25 juin 2019
Use of new genomic tools in the fight against PRRS virus
Diseases are often perceived as having a single cause and in the case of infectious disease, we expect to identify a single infectious...
2 avr. 2019
First report of pestivirus infection in Canadian piglets
Pestivirus infections cause significant morbidity and mortality characterized by shaking and muscular spasms that set in within the early...
18 févr. 2019
Additive and weaning: skinny piglets react differently to bacterial infection than plump piglets
As best practices regarding antibiotic use in veterinary medicine evolve and with the recent hype surrounding probiotics and microbiota,...
26 sept. 2018
Streptococcus suis and Haemophilus parasuis, bad bugs that aren’t friends, but stay out of each othe
Streptococcus suis (S. suis) and Haemophilus parasuis (H. parasuis) bacteria are spread between pigs through snout contact. While some...
