Causative agent
- Isospora suis
Differential diagnosis
- Strongyloidosis
- Balantidiosis
- Viral, bacterial, parasitic diseases which cause
diarrhea in neonatal pigs
1. History taking
- Most common in 5-15 day-old piglets
- Chronic diarrhea in piglets
- Endemic area of coccidiosis
- Acute diarrhea without response to antibiotics
2. Clinical examination
- Watery or greasy diarrhea, yellowish to white,
foul smelling
- Anorexia
- Dehydrate
- Vomit
- Dullness and loss weight (undersized)
3. Fecal examination
- Direct smear
- Flotation technique with saturated sugar solution
- Detection of oocysts
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4. Necropsy
- Slightly thin intestinal wall
- Yellowish and creamy intestinal content
- Diphtheritic membrane on mucosa of intestine
5. Tissue smear
- Direct scraping of the small intestine for the
detection of merozoites, schizonts or oocysts
6. Histopathological observation
- Villous atrophy
- Detection of coccidial parasites in the intestinal
epithelial cells
- Blunting of villi
- Focal ulceration
- Fibrinonecrotic enteritis
Control and treatment
- Clean the pen floor with disinfectant vapor or wash
- Treat infected piglets with coccidiocidal drugs
(Amprolium)
- Feed anticoccidial to sows from 2 weeks before
farrowing through lactation
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