Knowledge of the cytokine response at infection with Brachyspira hyodysenteriae can help understanding disease mechanism involved during swine dysentery. Since this knowledge is still limited the aim of the present study was to induce dysentery experimentally in pigs and to monitor the development of important immunoregulatory cytokines in blood collected at various stages of the disease.
Department of Clinical Sciences, Section for Comparative Physiology and Medicine, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 7054, S-750 07, Uppsala, Sweden. robert.kruse@kv.slu.se
