Pirolo, Mattia
Espinosa-Gongora, Carmen
Alberdi, Antton
Eisenhofer, Raphael
Soverini, Matteo
Eriksen, Esben Østergaard
Pedersen, Ken Steen
Guardabassi, Luca
Funding for this research was provided by:
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID Study Group for Veterinary Microbiology (ESGVM), ESCMID Study Group for Veterinary Microbiology (ESGVM), ESCMID Study Group for Veterinary Microbiology (ESGVM))
Article History
Received: 26 May 2022
Accepted: 24 November 2022
First Online: 16 January 2023
Declarations
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: Animals were sampled post-mortem and originated from a project on post-weaning diarrhoea funded by the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration and SEGES Danish Pig Research Center (funded by the Danish pork producers). The owners of the herds from which the pigs were recruited gave consent to euthanize the piglets for herd diagnostic purposes. Due to the diagnostic nature of the study, approval for experimental animal use was not required according to Danish law. Moreover, the procedure used for euthanasia do not cause any significant pain, suffering or distress to the animals. Collection of personal data (i.e., data possibly linked to individual farmers) was approved by the Danish data protection agency and the Secretariat at University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences (Reference number: 514-0480/20-3000).
: Not applicable.
: EØE works in research projects funded by the Danish pork sector and the Danish authorities. The author declares that this have not inappropriately influenced the present work. The other authors declare no competing interests.