title: Mortality associated with gastric ulceration in swine.
abstract: On a large swine operation, necropsy revealed that 39 of 146 (27%) pigs during one week in April and 37 of 137 (27%) pigs during one week in June died from hemorrhage due to gastric ulceration. Contributory factors may have been feed withdrawal one day per week and feeding finely ground pellets.
authors.affiliation: Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1.
authors.forename: Sergey I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Melnichouk
mesh_terms: D000821:Animal Feed; D000818:Animals; D005508:Food Deprivation; D010438:Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage / Q000401:mortality / Q000662:veterinary*; D013276:Stomach Ulcer / Q000401:mortality / Q000662:veterinary*; D013552:Swine; D013553:Swine Diseases / Q000401:mortality*