Rearing regimen producing piglet diarrhea (rotavirus) and its relevance to acute infantile diarrhea.
Piglets were weaned when 1 day old and thus were denied further access to the antibodies supplied by their dam's milk. They were placed in a nursery in which contamination by the ubiquitous rotavirus steadily increased with continuous use causing a progressive increase in the incidence of vomiting, diarrhea, and death among the piglets. A similar syndrome involving an antigenically related rotavirus and analogous management practices occurs in human infants.
D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn / Q000276:immunology; D000917:Antibody Formation; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003126:Colostrum / Q000276:immunology; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D003968:Diarrhea, Infantile / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012401:Rotavirus / Q000276:immunology; D013552:Swine; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D014886:Weaning