The importance of good health in the nursery cannot be overestimated. A good start in life increases the chances of a healthy and profitable journey later in the finishing period.While Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (Mhp) is one of the most important primary pathogens resulting in clinical and sometimes subclinical disease in finishing pigs, it is generally not considered a cause of disease in the nursery.As the bacteria is transmitted between pigs very slowly and also replicates slowly after infecting pigs, the significant Mhp bacterial load required to cause clinical disease rarely exists until later in life.
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