"postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome" Overview

Postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome is a porcine disease. This disease causes illness in piglets, with clinical signs including progressive loss of body condition, visibly enlarged lymph nodes, difficulty in breathing, and sometimes diarrhea, pale skin, and jaundice. PMWS has been reported from most pig-producing countries of the world at huge cost to agriculture. PMWS is caused by porcine circovirus type 2 PMWS is associated with infection of pigs by porcine...