title: [A case of selenium poisoning in weaned piglets; the persistent one wins].
abstract: A case of selenium poisoning involving eighty approximately nine-week-old piglets is reported. Feed and water were supplied with a dry feed hopper with nipple in the through. Clinical symptoms appeared within ten days after the feed-intake. The symptoms consisted in loss of condition (emaciation), drawn-in thin bellies, long hair, loss of appetite, hard, dark faeces, cerebral symptoms and mortality. Autopsy was performed on a total number of four piglets, in which severe hepatic degeneration was detected. When pig prestarter (creep feed) was substituted for piglet-raising feed (weaner-diet), the condition was gradually restored to normal within a few days.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Oskam
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: van Putten
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Vahl
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vellenga
mesh_terms: D000821:Animal Feed / Q000032:analysis / Q000506:poisoning*; D000818:Animals; D012643:Selenium / Q000032:analysis / Q000506:poisoning*; D013552:Swine; D013553:Swine Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced*
chemical_list: D012643:Selenium
vernacular_title: Een geval van seleniumintoxicatie bij gespeende biggen; de aanhouder wint.