Title: Transmissible gastro-enteritis (TGE) | The Pig Site
Headings: Transmissible gastro-enteritis (TGE)
Transmissible gastro-enteritis (TGE)
Background and history
Similar diseases
Clinical signs
Acute disease
Chronic or endemic disease
Weaners and growers
Piglets
Sows
Diagnosis
Causes
Prevention
Treatment
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Content: Provide disinfectant foot dips at all entrances. Keep starlings and migrating birds away from the farm by not exposing them to feed. Do not borrow equipment from another pig farm. Site all bins to the exterior of the unit and always have your own feeder pipes to your own feed bins. This is a high risk source for the spread of enteric diseases. Vaccination - live modified and killed vaccines are available in some countries. The results in the field are very variable. The objective is to maintain immunity in the colostrum. This can only be carried out by stimulating the gut of the sow to produce antibodies in the milk. Intra-muscular vaccines give a very poor response.