The aim of the paper was to evaluate the possible interaction between the
presence of swine infectious diseases and low levels of mycotoxins in swine
feed. The material for this research included the samples from three swine
farms, where health disorders in different swine categories were detected.
The applied research methods included: epidemiological and clinical
evaluation, pathological examination, bacteriological and virological
laboratory testing and microbiological feed testing, in order to examine the
presence of fungi and mycotoxins by the method of thin layer chromatography.
Beside this, the molecular diagnostic method, reverse transcripton-polymerase
chain reaction (RT-PCR) and viral isolation was included. The obtained
results support the existance of positive interaction between the mycotoxins
and causative agents of bacterial and viral swine infective diseases.
[Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. TR 31071]