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Animal Diseases > Swine Diseases > Porcine Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome
Infections > Virus Diseases > DNA Virus Infections > Circoviridae Infections > Porcine Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome

Preferred term

Porcine Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome, Porcine

Scope note

  • A worldwide emerging disease of weaned piglets first recognized in swine herds in western Canada in 1997. This syndrome is characterized by progressive weight loss, rapid (tachypnea) and difficult (dyspnea) breathing, and yellowing of skin. PMWS is caused by PORCINE CIRCOVIRUS infection, specifically type 2 or PCV-2.

History note

  • 2007

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D053570

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