Around the world, anti-mycotoxins additives have been used for decades to prevent the deleterious effects caused by them. Historically, one main concern is the possibility of these products negatively affecting the absorption of essential nutrients, such as minerals and vitamins from the gastrointestinal tract…

Pigs will ingest sublethal amounts of the toxin for a prolonged period of time, affecting their health status. The manifestation is a growth reduction and poor performance. The analysis of mycotoxins in feed previously consumed by the animals is normally the method used to establish a relationship between the lesions observed in the slaughterhouses and mycotoxins.

¿Why is it sometimes difficult to identify mycotoxins in grains and food?
It is common to talk with nutritionists, agronomists and veterinarians who mention the difficulty of demonstrating significant levels of mycotoxins in the ration of animals that show typical mycotoxicosis lesions.

What are endotoxins?
Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria are differentiated, among other things, by their type of cell envelope. Gram-negative bacteria are encircled by a thin peptidoglycan cell wall, that is also enclosed by an outer membrane containing lipopolysaccharides (LPS), one of the main components of the endotoxins responsible for the damage…

La realización de la necropsia es indispensable para la elaboración de un diagnóstico. Es importante contar en las granjas con el equipo mínimo necesario para su realización. Cada profesionista adopta una técnica de necropsia e incluso la modifica a su gusto y comodidad, por lo que esta es solo una guía para la realización sistemática de la misma.