{"id":8718,"date":"2011-08-22T20:46:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T20:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=8718"},"modified":"2011-11-23T20:57:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T20:57:26","slug":"granulomatous-lymphadenitis-associated-with-actinobacillus-pleuropneumoniae-serotype-2-in-slaughter-barrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/granulomatous-lymphadenitis-associated-with-actinobacillus-pleuropneumoniae-serotype-2-in-slaughter-barrows\/","title":{"rendered":"Granulomatous lymphadenitis associated with Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae serotype 2 in slaughter barrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">This study evaluated the occurrence of granulomatous lymphadenitis and its association with <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><em>Actinobacillus <\/em>spp. in 151 653 slaughtered pigs. Markedly enlarged pulmonary hilar, mediastinal, mandibular or hepatic lymph nodes were detected in 6 castrated males. The cut surfaces showed multifocal yellow-white lesions. Histologically, gram-negative bacilli were visible in the centers of the lesions with asteroid bodies, epithelioid cells, and multinucleated giant cells. Dense fibrous connective tissue surrounded these granulomatous lesions. Immunohistochemically, the organisms reacted with polyclonal antibodies against <em>Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae<\/em> serotype 2 in all 6 barrows. The organism was isolated from the lymph nodes of all 6 animals. The results indicate that the granulomatous lymphadenitis was associated with <em>A. pleuropneumoniae <\/em>serotype 2 and the disorder had a tendency to occur in slaughter barrows.<\/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;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study evaluated the occurrence of granulomatous lymphadenitis and its association with Actinobacillus spp. in 151 653 slaughtered pigs. Markedly enlarged pulmonary hilar, mediastinal, mandibular or hepatic lymph nodes were detected in 6 castrated males. The cut surfaces showed multifocal yellow-white lesions. Histologically, gram-negative bacilli were visible in the centers of the lesions with asteroid [&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],"tags":[4712,8882,640,13816,7321,17673,2817,23933,22181,20007,24769,8299,10858,14,33,16262,608,1460,1533,76,51,35,20911,11771],"class_list":["post-8718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production","tag-actinobacillus-pleuropneumoniae","tag-al","tag-animal","tag-ass","tag-barrows","tag-center","tag-cla","tag-economic-actinobacillus","tag-eu-swine-psy-fcr","tag-gh","tag-granulomatous-lymphadenitis-swine","tag-lymph-nodes","tag-mark","tag-pig","tag-pigs","tag-pl","tag-pneumonia","tag-serotype","tag-size","tag-slaughter","tag-space","tag-swine","tag-t","tag-www-prairieswine-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718","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=8718"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10091,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718\/revisions\/10091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}