Herd Health: Clostridial enteritis in neonatal pigs – the causes and treatment

By the end of the 1990s, another cause of baby pig scours was emerging. At first Clostridium difficile took the lead, but C. difficile was quickly overtaken by Clostridium perfringens type A

by S. ERNEST SANFORD

I can’t pinpoint exactly when I realized E. coli scours in baby pigs had decreased to such an extent that it was much less a major problem in the farrowing room in most of our barns.