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. 1991 Mar 1;32(1):79–88. doi: 10.1186/BF03546999

An Abattoir Survey of Pneumonia and Pleuritis in Slaughter Weight Swine from 9 Selected Herds

III. Serological Findings and their Relationship to Pathomorphological and Microbiological Findings

En slaktehusundersøkelse over pneumoni og pleuritt hos slaktegris fra 9 utvalgte besetninger. III. Serologiske funn og deres sammenheng med patomorfologiske og mikrobiologiske funn

K Falk 1,✉, B M Lium 1
PMCID: PMC8127886  PMID: 1950854

Abstract

Blood samples from 777 pigs, originating from 9 different herds, were collected at slaughter and examined for antibodies to Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and Actinobacillus (Haemophilus) pleuropneumoniae by the indirect hemagglutination assay (IHA) and the complement fixation (CF) test, respectively. Results were compared to pathological and microbiological findings. Antibodies to M. hyopneumoniae in positive titers of 1/80 or higher were found in 62 % of the samples. The relationship between positive IHA titers to M. hyopneumoniae and gross findings indicative of enzootic pneumonia of pigs (EPP), histological findings indicative of EPP, the isolation of M. hyopneumoniae and the demonstration of M. hyopneumoniae by indirect immunofluorescent testing ranged from 64 % to 68 %. No correlation was noted between positive IHA titers and the isolation of Mycoplasma flocculare. Positive antibody titers to A. pleuropneumoniae of 1/10 or higher were detected in 5 % to 85 % of the samples from individual herds. Positive titers to A. pleuropneumoniae serotype 2 were found in 71 % to 79 % of the sampled animals from herds with high frequencies of pneumonic lesions indicative of pleuropneumonia. In herds with low frequencies of pleuropneumonia, positive titers were recorded in from 0 to 4 % of the tested pigs. However, no statistical association was found between pleuropneumonia and positive titers to A. pleuropneumoniae serotype 2 in individual animals. Twenty-one per cent of samples with positive CF titers to A. pleuropneumoniae showed antibodies to more than one serotype.

Keywords: sero-survey, Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, Actinobacillus pleuro pneumoniae, bronchopneumonia, pleuropneumonia

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