Porcine enzootic pneumonia: relationship between microscopic lung and kidney lesions in Santa Catarina, Brazil

Abstract

In this work the relationship between lung lesions of pigs with Enzootic Pneumonia and kidney lesions during sanitary inspection at slaughter was investigated. For this purpose sixty-nine Enzootic Pneumonia positive lung samples and sixty-nine negative ones as well as kidneys from the same pigs were post mortem examined. Microscopic examination revealed that 54.28% of the pigs (58/138) had both lesions, an association significant by Chi-square (P

Keywords

• Porcine Enzootic Pneumonia
• Nephritis
• Swine slaughtered
• Refrigerated slaughterhouses.