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Authors
Karte, Claudia
Platje, Nadine
Bullermann, Johannes
Beer, Martin
Höper, Dirk
Blome, Sandra http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5465-5609
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Federal Excellence Initiative of Mecklenburg Western Pomerania (Grant KoInfekt (ESF_14-BM-A55-00xx_16))
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Article History
Received: 15 May 2020
Accepted: 27 August 2020
First Online: 10 September 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The sample material was submitted to the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut for enhanced diagnostics and was taken by the responsible farm veterinarian in the context of the health monitoring program of the respective farm (in accordance with the Regulation on hygiene requirements for the keeping of pigs; online available at). In Germany, every keeper of pigs must have his herd supervised by a veterinarian as part of the on-farm inspections, this includes clinical and laboratory checks to maintain and improve the health status of the herd. No permissions were necessary to collect the mainly non-invasive specimens. The farmer approved in-detail analyses of the PED case and shipment of samples (verbal agreement with the responsible veterinarian). All procedures were carried out in accordance with the relevant regulations.
: The owner of the case farm approved submission of the report. All authors have approved submission of the manuscript.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
