Tom Meyns

TL;DR: The main effects of vaccination include less clinical symptoms, lung lesions and medication use, and improved performance, however, bacterins provide only partial protection and do not prevent colonization of the organism.

TL;DR: The recent successes with in vitro isolation of non-H.

TL;DR: The findings of this study indicate that the prevalence of pleuritis and pneumonia remains high in Belgium and management factors are central to disease control.

TL;DR: Vaccination with a conventional vaccine could not prevent the establishment of M. hyopneumoniae organisms in the lung and the infectious status of the animals was determined based on results of nPCR performed on bronchoalveolar lavage fluid.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated and quantified the transmission of mycoplasma hyopneumoniae through swine herds by means of an adjusted reproduction ratio (Rn), which expressed the mean number of secondary infections due to one typical infectious piglet during the nursery period.