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LSI e-Catalogue 2012 Veterinary Diagnostic Kits Elisa, PCR and BVD (English) LSI’s catalog 2012
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e-Catalogue LSI 2012 des kits de diagnostic vétérinaire Elisa, PCR et BVD (FR)Catalogue LSI 2012
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ELISA Kits :
TRANSMISSIBLE GASTRO-ENTERITIS (TGE)
Transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE) is a contagious disease due to a coronavirus that causes high mortality in piglets in the first two weeks of life, with vomiting, watery diarrhoea, anorexia and dehydration. The high mortality is due to dehydration and metabolic acidosis leading to impaired heart function. Weaned piglets of over three weeks of age usually survive. After infection, piglets of over three weeks of age remain latent carriers and excrete virus. Because of this, it is essential to screen for antibodies against the TGE virus in pigs that are to be newly brought into a pig unit in order to reduce the risk of spread of the infection. TGE is transmitted in contaminated faecal material and milk from infected sows, or by flying insects (vectors of the disease).
Another virus, porcine respiratory coronavirus (PRCV) which is closely related to the TGE virus, causes benign respiratory problems (and possibly, as recently suggested, porcine pneumonia). Since many countries require that any pig to be introduced into a unit should be free of TGE, it is important that the test used routinely for screening distinguishes between the two viruses (despite the fact that they are extensively cross-reactive).
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