{"id":8702,"date":"2011-08-22T20:29:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T20:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=8702"},"modified":"2011-11-23T21:18:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T21:18:52","slug":"decreased-mortality-of-weaned-pigs-with-streptococcus-suis-with-the-use-of-in-water-potassium-penicillin-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/decreased-mortality-of-weaned-pigs-with-streptococcus-suis-with-the-use-of-in-water-potassium-penicillin-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Decreased mortality of weaned pigs with Streptococcus suis with the use of in-water potassium penicillin G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">This study evaluated the efficacy of potassium penicillin G in drinking water of weaned pigs to reduce mortality and spread of infection caused by <em>Streptococcus suis. <\/em>A total of 896 18-day-old weaned pigs were randomly assigned to either treatment with potassium penicillin G in-water (Treated), or no treatment (Control). The outcomes analyzed were total mortality, mortality due to <em>S. suis, <\/em>and overall counts of <em>S. suis <\/em>colonies. The risk of mortality due to <em>S. suis <\/em>and total mortality were significantly increased in the Control group compared with Treated pigs. Bacterial culture of posterior pharyngeal swabs indicated that Control pigs were significantly more likely to have $ 1000 colonies of <em>S. suis <\/em>per plate than were Treated pigs. This study demonstrates that potassium penicillin G administered in drinking water is effective in reducing mortality associated with <em>S. suis <\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">infection and reducing tonsillar carriage of <em>S. suis.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><em><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: ComputerModern-Italic;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study evaluated the efficacy of potassium penicillin G in drinking water of weaned pigs to reduce mortality and spread of infection caused by Streptococcus suis. A total of 896 18-day-old weaned pigs were randomly assigned to either treatment with potassium penicillin G in-water (Treated), or no treatment (Control). The outcomes analyzed were total mortality, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[930,928],"tags":[8882,13816,9290,2817,24795,20970,7876,20007,26380,606,13415,14355,14,33,16262,18125,876,8292,8293,18005,2365,14805,1533,22993,11681,35,20911,18011,25543,52,6053,69,3790,6244,6137,1301,11771],"class_list":["post-8702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production","category-welfare","tag-al","tag-ass","tag-carr","tag-cla","tag-decreased-mortality-of-weaned-pigs-with-streptococcus-suis-with-the","tag-decreased-mortality-of-weaned-pigs-with-streptococcus-suis-with-the-use-of-in-water-potassium-penicillin-g","tag-drinking-water","tag-gh","tag-infec","tag-mortality","tag-penicillin-strep-control-pigs","tag-penicillin-water-medicators","tag-pig","tag-pigs","tag-pl","tag-poster","tag-potassium","tag-potassium-penicillin","tag-reduce-mortality","tag-reducing-strep-suis-penicillin-g","tag-risk","tag-rn","tag-size","tag-streptococcus-pigs-treatment","tag-streptococcus-suis-infection-pigs-mortality","tag-swine","tag-t","tag-tot","tag-treat-strep-in-pigs","tag-treatment","tag-use","tag-water","tag-weaned","tag-weaned-pig","tag-weaned-pigs","tag-weight","tag-www-prairieswine-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8705,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions\/8705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}