Eriksen Esben Østergaard, Pedersen Ken Steen, Larsen Inge, Nielsen Jens Peter
Section for Production, Nutrition and Health, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Grønnegårdsvej 2, 1870 Frederiksberg, Denmark.
Ø-Vet A/S, Køberupvej 33, 4700 Næstved, Denmark.
Animals (Basel). 2022 Jul 6;12(14):1737. doi: 10.3390/ani12141737.
Aided by their advising veterinarians, pig producers need to make difficult decisions regarding herd health management strategies. For instance, the preventive use of antimicrobials and medicinal zinc oxide must be substituted with more sustainable preventive approaches to porcine post-weaning diarrhea. Veterinarians and pig producers may find assistance in knowledge based on evidence in this regard; however, the overwhelming scientific literature is not always readily available. The overall aim of this paper is to suggest herd health management decision-support tools that can aid veterinary-assisted decision making in the control of porcine post-weaning diarrhea at a tactical level. The first objective was to validate the need for a herd health management concept, including two decision-support tools. The second objective was to develop evidence-based recommendations that can aid veterinary-assisted decision-making for the herd health management of post-weaning diarrhea. The first objective was investigated by a questionnaire-based study among veterinary pig practitioners in Denmark. For the second objective, we conducted a scientific summary based on scientific review papers identified through a systematic search in three databases. From the papers, we synthesized and extracted 79 specific recommendations. In this paper, we report comprehensive evidence-based recommendations for the herd health management of post-weaning diarrhea.
在兽医的建议下，养猪生产者需要就猪群健康管理策略做出艰难决策。例如，预防性使用抗菌药物和药用氧化锌必须被更可持续的预防仔猪断奶后腹泻的方法所取代。兽医和养猪生产者在这方面可能会从基于证据的知识中获得帮助；然而，大量的科学文献并非总是随手可得。本文的总体目标是提出猪群健康管理决策支持工具，以在战术层面协助兽医辅助决策来控制仔猪断奶后腹泻。第一个目标是验证一种猪群健康管理理念的必要性，包括两种决策支持工具。第二个目标是制定基于证据的建议，以协助兽医辅助决策进行断奶后腹泻的猪群健康管理。第一个目标通过对丹麦兽医猪从业者进行的基于问卷的研究来调查。对于第二个目标，我们基于通过在三个数据库中系统检索确定的科学综述论文进行了科学总结。从这些论文中，我们综合并提取了79条具体建议。在本文中，我们报告了关于断奶后腹泻猪群健康管理的全面的基于证据的建议。
