Dysentery: Prevention rather than cure

Swine dysentery or bloody diarrhoea is a bacterial intestinal disease with varying clinical pictures caused by the anaerobic spirochete Brachyspira hyodysenteriae. Since the ban on antimicrobial growth promoters in the EU, swine dysentery has become an emerging problem in pig farming. Severe economical losses, associated with this disease, and the bacteria’s widespread resistance to antibiotics increases the need for good prevention. By Ir Ellen Van Meenen, product manager functional feed