Swine Erysipelas Infection in Man

Authors

L. Van Es

Date of this Version

8-1942

Document Type

Article

Citation

Van Es, L. (1942) Swine erysipelas infection in man (Research Bulletin: Bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Nebraska No. 130)

Comments

ISSN 0097-1461

Abstract

The preceding decade witnessed the introduction and spread within this state of a hitherto uncommon disease of swine. This disorder, swine erysipelas, has gradually become disseminated throughout Nebraska's swine population until it has developed into a major problem of preventive veterinary medicine. Its appearance, furthermore, added another to our list of animal maladies which are communicable to man. The latter consideration may serve as warrant to review what is known about the part played by swine erysipelas as a human disease, to describe its more salient features and to examine them from epidemiological, clinical, pathological and prophylactic viewpoints.