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Table 1 Major porcine Gram-negative bacilli and diseases

From: Immunogenomics for identification of disease resistance genes in pigs: a review focusing on Gram-negative bacilli

Causal bacterium

Family; Genus

Pig diseases

Reference

Salmonella enterica (S. enterica) (serovar Choleraesuis and Typhimurium)

Enterobacteriaceae; Salmonella

common diseases with diarrhea and enterocolitis

[34, 35]

Escherichia coli (E. coli)

Enterobacteriaceae; Escherichia

diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis (HC), and hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS)

[36, 37]

Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae)

Enterobacteriaceae; Klebsiella

diarrhea, septicaemia, sudden death especially in preweaned pigs

[38, 39]

Yersinia species (Y. pseudotuberculosis; Y. enterocolitica)

Enterobacteriaceae; Yersinia

enteritis (or diarrhea)

[40–42]

Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (A. pleuropneumoniae)

Pasteurellaceae; Actinobacillus

fibrinohemorrhagic necrotizing bronchopneumonia, fibrinous pleuritis, acute pleuropneumonia mainly in growing pigs

[31, 32]

Haemophilus parasuis (H. parasuis)

Pasteurellaceae; Haemophilus

Glässer's disease, acute pneumoniae and acute septicaemia

[33]

Lawsonia intracellularis (L. intracellularis)

Desulfovibrionaceae; Lawsonia

chronic diarrhea in young growing pigs, proliferative hemorrhagic enteropathy (PHE)

[43, 44]

Campylobacter coli (C. coli)

Campylobacteraceae; Campylobacter

enteritis

[45]