Lactogenic Immunity in the Sow: A Practical Approach provides swine practitioners, farm managers, and veterinary students with a clinically focused guide to neonatal piglet protection. The book details the innate and adaptive components of the porcine immune system before outlining immunization schedules designed to stimulate protective antibodies in sows. Subsequent sections focus on colostrum quality, intake management, and methods for assessing the transfer of passive immunity under commercial farming conditions.
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Lactogenic Immunity in the Sow: a Practical Approach
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Good transfer of passive immunity from sows to piglets is crucial to ensure piglet survival on pig farms. This book is intended to help veterinary practitioners work towards this goal, and includes a review of the basics of immunology and vaccination, as well as comprehensive chapters on the immunisation programmes used in sows and on the transfer of passive immunity from sows to piglets.
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- 1. Introduction; Basic immunological concepts; Innate immunity; Cellular component; Humoral component; Adaptive (acquired) immunity; Humoral component; Cellular component; Dynamics of the immune response; Relative importance of cellular and humoral immunity in effective protection -- 2. Viral diseases: sow vaccination programmes; Vaccination against porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome; Vaccination against porcine circovirus disease; Vaccination against parvovirus infection; Vaccination against swine influenza -- 5. Practical aspects of the transfer of passive immunity to the piglet; Management of colostrum consumption; Factors related to quality; Factors related to quantity; Measuring the transfer of passive immunity; References
Lorenzo Fraile
Lorenzo José Fraile Sauce has been an adjunct professor of Epidemiology and Pharmacology at the University of Lleida since 2010 and teaches in the Master's Degree in Swine Production and Health offered jointly by the Complutense University of Madrid, the University of Lleida, and the University of Zaragoza. His research focuses on optimizing preventative medicine programs in pigs through epidemiology, immunology, and clinical pharmacology. He has authored over 80 scientific journal articles and presented widely at international veterinary congresses.
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