Meningitis por Streptococcus suis en cerdos en la cuarta semana de edad.

Abstract

The agricultural company 3C, is dedicated to pig production in the breeding and rearing phase, in which several cases of meningitis have occurred in piglets after weaning. Two cases of piglets that presented nervous symptoms were observed, the patients were 26 days old and 5 days post-weaning, they were in prostrate lateral decubitus and with their hind limbs they made pedaling movements. It began with a physical examination, finding nystagmus, fever and arthritis, continued with a quarantine of the piglets avoiding the spread of the pathogen, however, due to the fact that population medicine is handled in swine production, a pharmacological treatment was established. for 5 consecutive days, to the piglets that presented symptoms, the effectiveness of the treatment was visualized on day 3, improving the alterations that were evident through daily semiological examinations: the stabilization of the signs mentioned above. On the 5th day after the treatment and without any type of clinical complication, one of the patients died, which is the one on whom the necropsy was performed. The follow-up of the patient continued, evaluating his condition; evidencing that the antibiotic treatment used was successful in 1 of the two cases presented without altering its productive purpose. This clinical case allows illustrating the management of a possible case of meningitis from the population point of view and broadening knowledge of this pathology since it is frequently present in swine production.