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Animal Diseases > Swine Diseases > Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome
... > Infections > Virus Diseases > RNA Virus Infections > Nidovirales Infections > Arterivirus Infections > Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome

Preferred term

Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Blue Eared Pig Disease
  • Blue-Eared Pig Disease
  • Mystery Swine Disease
  • Pig Disease, Blue-Eared
  • Porcine Epidemic Abortion and Respiratory Syndrome
  • PRRS
  • Swine Disease, Mystery
  • Swine Infertility and Respiratory Syndrome

Scope note

  • A syndrome characterized by outbreaks of late term abortions, high numbers of stillbirths and mummified or weak newborn piglets, and respiratory disease in young unweaned and weaned pigs. It is caused by PORCINE RESPIRATORY AND REPRODUCTIVE SYNDROME VIRUS. (Radostits et al., Veterinary Medicine, 8th ed, p1048)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019318

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