This article is part of the supplement: Perinatal Death In Domestic Animals: The 20th Symposium of the Nordic Committee for Veterinary Scientific Cooperation (NKVet)

Oral presentation

Infections and perinatal diseases – a comparative overview

Berit Djønne

Department of animal health, National Veterinary Institute, Oslo, Norway

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from Perinatal Death In Domestic Animals: The 20th Symposium of the Nordic Committee for Veterinary Scientific Cooperation (NKVet)
Reykjavik, Iceland. 26–27 April 2007

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2007, 49(Suppl 1):S10doi:10.1186/1751-0147-49-S1-S10

Published:	12 December 2007

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Many different infectious agents, viruses, bacteria, parasites and fungi, can lead to perinatal diseases in animals. Some infectious agents have the genital system as their primary target; they will mainly lead to infertility, abortion, stillbirth or weak newborns. Other agents give a more generalised infection and reproductive problems are only a small part of the picture. This lecture will focus on some important infectious agents that infect the animals during late gestation leading to abortion, stillbirth or foetus anomalies. Infections of the newborn animals the first few days after birth will also be considered.