New diagnostic tools developed by researchers at the University of Saskatchewan are helping the pork industry address a new strain of Brachyspira. Brachyspira hyodysenteriae, the organism that causes swine dysentery, had been thought to have been eradicated thirty years ago. Researchers with the University of Saskatchewan in partnership with the Canadian Swine Health Board are working to characterise and control an infection that appeared in late 2009, causing similar symptoms.
