Neonatal immune development in swine management

摘要

The development of the immune system is an important, but expensive process to the neonate. Recent evidence indicates that poor initial development of inflammatory and adaptive immunity can have significant costs throughout the production cycle in alllivestock. Understanding the roles of colostrum, nutrition, environment and vaccination programs in the optimal immune development during the first weeks of life are going to be an important key to efficient management in the "post-antibiotic" era of swine production. Biological management of disease will be a principal tool of profitable management of swine.