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Animal Diseases > Swine Diseases > Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome
... > Infections > Virus Diseases > RNA Virus Infections > Nidovirales Infections > Arterivirus Infections > Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome

Preferred term

Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • A syndrome characterized by outbreaks of late term abortions, high numbers of stillbirths and mummified or weak newborn piglets, and respiratory disease in young unweaned and weaned pigs. It is caused by PORCINE RESPIRATORY AND REPRODUCTIVE SYNDROME VIRUS. (Radostits et al., Veterinary Medicine, 8th ed, p1048)

Entry terms

  • Blue-Eared Pig Disease
  • Mystery Swine Disease
  • Porcine Epidemic Abortion and Respiratory Syndrome
  • PRRS
  • Swine Infertility and Respiratory Syndrome

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-CRV53W64-J

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