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Porcine enzootic pneumonia, also known as mycoplasmal pneumonia, is a chronic respiratory disease of pigs caused by Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae.[1]
It is part of the Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex along with Swine Influenza, PRRS and Porcine circovirus 2, and even though on its own it is quite a mild disease, it predisposes to secondary infections with organisms such as Pasteurella multocida.
Clinical signs are most commonly seen in pigs over 8 weeks of age, and the disease occurs worldwide. Transmission is horizontal and vertical from sows.
- ^ Flanders, Frank; Gillespie, James R. (2015). "Chapter 23 Diseases and parasites of swine. Mycoplasmal pneumonia". Modern Livestock & Poultry Production (9th ed.). Cengage Learning. p. 437. ISBN 9781305483156.