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Management - Disease interactions in pigs 3: Nutrition - disease interactions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2017

B.G. Miller ,
M.Bailey ,
E. Telemo ,
C.R. Stokes  and
F.J. Bourne
B.G. Miller
Affiliation:
Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bristol, Langford House, Langford, Bristol BS18 7DU
M.Bailey
Affiliation:
Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bristol, Langford House, Langford, Bristol BS18 7DU
E. Telemo
Affiliation:
Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bristol, Langford House, Langford, Bristol BS18 7DU
C.R. Stokes
Affiliation:
Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bristol, Langford House, Langford, Bristol BS18 7DU
F.J. Bourne
Affiliation:
Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bristol, Langford House, Langford, Bristol BS18 7DU
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Both level of feeding and dietary composition have been demonstrated to influence bacterial colonisation and diarrhoea in the weaned pig (Smith & Hall 1968, Bertschinger et al 1978, Lecce et al 1983). Kenworthy and Allen 1966 proposed that “the stimulus to bacterial growth derives from the hosts response mechanisms to intestinal irritation” and that the enterotoxigenic E Coli “Acts as an exacerbating agent rather than a primary pathogen” (Kenworthy et al 1967).

Several workers have suggested that the primary intestinal response is villus atrophy, an elevation in crypt cell mitosis (by up to x10) and crypt cell hyperplasia, associated with malabsorption, mal-digestion and increased intra-epithelial lymphocytes. Such a response is characteristic of a T cell mediated type IV hypersensitivity (Ferguson 1980). Miller et al (1984) have therefore suggested that one of the factors which may contribute to the aetiology of postweaning diarrhoea is a transient hypersensitivity to dietary antigens prior to the development of oral tolerance.

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Management - Disease Interactions in Piglets
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1988 , March 1988 , pp. 34
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1988

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