Bacterial diseases and antibiotic use in pigs back in focus

It is something of a paradox. Several countries in North Western Europe aim to reduce antibiotics as much as possible – and as a result, attention paid to bacterial diseases and antibiotics have taken centre stage again for researchers. Bacterial diseases of pigs have languished in terms of research funding behind their viral cousins for many years. This lack of opportunity for scientific research and the attendant failure of research outcomes into scientific features such as bacterial pathoge