Porcine enzootic pneumonia: relationship between microscopic lung and kidney lesions in Santa Catarina, Brazil

Autor: Kênia de Fátima Carrijo, Elmiro Rosendo do Nascimento, Rogerio Tortelly
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Bioscience Journal, Vol 27, Iss 3 (2011)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1981-3163
Popis: In this work the relationship between lung lesions of pigs with Enzootic Pneumonia and kidney lesions during sanitary inspection at slaughter was investigated. For this purpose sixty-nine Enzootic Pneumonia positive lung samples and sixty-nine negative ones as well as kidneys from the same pigs were post mortem examined. Microscopic examination revealed that 54.28% of the pigs (58/138) had both lesions, an association significant by Chi-square (P
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