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A worldwide emerging disease of weaned piglets first recognized in swine herds in western Canada in 1997. This syndrome is characterized by progressive weight loss, rapid (tachypnea) and difficult (dyspnea) breathing, and yellowing of skin. PMWS is caused by PORCINE CIRCOVIRUS infection, specifically type 2 or PCV-2.
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- Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome, Porcine
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, virology.
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2007
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- Swine Diseases (1997-2006)
- Wasting Syndrome (1997-2006)
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- National Library of Medicine. Porcine Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D053570. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D053570
- Porcine Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54946469