FVH Schweine key terms

The movement and grouping of pigs through reproductive and growth stages, relevant to exposure patterns and herd investigation.

A management approach separating defined groups through a unit, whose effect depends on actual animal and environmental separation.

A recognizable combination of signs that organizes a differential without necessarily establishing one unique infectious cause.

The proportion of a defined service cohort that farrows under the stated recording convention, requiring an appropriate matching denominator.

A breeding-female record category for a day outside the defined gestating or lactating states, interpreted within the actual herd system.

Protection transferred through maternal immune components under the relevant neonatal physiology, distinguished from the offspring producing its own response.

The defined quantity of feed input divided by the corresponding liveweight gain, requiring matched groups, periods and measurement bases.

Measured liveweight change divided by the corresponding elapsed time, not a guarantee that every animal gained uniformly each day.

An estimate of biologically available amino-acid input under the specified system, distinct from gross ingredient mass or an unspecified percentage.

A structured description of a lesion by features such as organ, distribution, severity, duration and type of pathological process.

Postmortem tissue degradation that can obscure diagnostic architecture or complicate distinction between actual disease and later change.

A tissue technique identifying selected antigens using antibodies, interpreted with controls, morphology and the actual test limitations.

The proportion of animals with the defined target condition that the selected test classifies positive under its stated conditions.

The proportion of positive test results representing the target condition, which depends on the population as well as test properties.

The applicable restriction relating an actual medicine use to food production, determined by the relevant product and current rules.

The processes determining drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination in the relevant species and individual patient.

Movement of air into and out of the respiratory system, not the same function as oxygenation measured by saturation.

A responsible system of prevention, diagnostic reasoning, justified antimicrobial selection and review that aims to preserve effective treatment.

The Swiss veterinary antibiotic information system for relevant prescribing data, interpreted within its actual scope, exceptions and current reporting process.

A defined early-detection diagnostic pathway that is distinct from the competent-authority response to an established concrete reportable-disease suspicion.

The actual medicine authorization, species, formulation, indication and use information needed before interpreting prescribing and food-chain requirements.