Table 5.
The use of antimicrobial drugs in all in – all out LSO 2000 finishing units. The table presents the diagnosis, the number of diagnoses (mass medicationa or individual treatment) and the percentages of drugs for treating the diseased pigs (595 batches).
| % of animals having the diagnosis treated with: | |||||||||
| Diagnosis | N of diagnosesb | β-lactam anti- bioticsc | Tetra- cycline | Trimetho- prim- sulpha | Lincos- amides, macrolides and pleuro- mutilinesd | Enro- floxacin | Several antimicrobials simultaneously | Only other treatments than antimicrobials used | Information missing about the treatments |
| Tail biting | 4983 | 73 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| Arthritis | 3764 | 58 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| Respiratory | 3027 | 3 | 36a | 0 | 59a | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Digestive and | 3023 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 73a | 0 | 23a | 0 | 1 |
| infective | |||||||||
| Digestive, other | 1039 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 82a | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Locomotory | 669 | 46 | 18 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 12 |
| Oedema | 495 | 0 | 0 | 85a | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Erysipelas | 224 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Glässer | 215 | 32 | 6 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 27 |
| Miscellaneouse | 536 | 36 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 10 |
| Information | 1055 | 41 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 17a | 0 | 5 | 14 |
| missing | |||||||||
| TOTAL | 19030 | 37 | 16 | 4 | 27 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
a 88–100% of these treatments have been given as mass medications, all other treatments have been individual treatments
b Some pigs counted more than once because of >1 treatment periods per pig or >1 disease code per treatment recorded
c Penicillin and ampicillin
d Lincomycin, spiramycin, tiamulin and tylosin
e Miscellaneous = Skin, abscess, nervous, unknown disease, other