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This study aimed at quantifying the occurrence of contacts between wild boar and outdoor domestic pigs in Switzerland, and identifying risk factors for these contacts. Furthermore, exposed pigs were tested for pathogen spill-over, taking <jats:italic>Brucella suis<\/jats:italic> as an example because <jats:italic>B. suis<\/jats:italic> is widespread in Swiss wild boar while domestic pigs are officially free of brucellosis.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Thirty-one percent of the game-wardens and 25% of the pig owners participating to a country-wide questionnaire survey reported contacts, including approaches of wild boar outside the fence, intrusions, and mating. Seventeen piggeries (5%) reported the birth of cross-bred animals. Risk factors for contacts identified by a uni- and multivariable logistic regression approach were: distance between pigs enclosure and houses, proximity of a forest, electric fences, and fences\u2009\u2264\u200960\u2009cm. Pigs of the Mangalitza breed were most at risk for mating with wild boar (births of cross-bred animals). Blood and tissues of 218 outdoor pigs from 13 piggeries were tested for an infection with <jats:italic>Brucella suis<\/jats:italic>, using rose bengal test, complement fixation test, and an IS<jats:italic>711<\/jats:italic>-based real-time PCR. One piggery with previous wild boar contacts was found infected with <jats:italic>B. suis<\/jats:italic>, however, epidemiological investigations failed to identify the direct source of infection.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Results show that interactions between wild boar and outdoor pigs are not uncommon, pointing at the existing risk of pathogen spill-over. Provided data on risk factors for these interactions could help the risk-based implementation of protection measures for piggeries. The documentation of a brucellosis outbreak in pigs despite the freedom-of-disease status underlines the importance of improving pathogen surveillance strategies and increasing disease awareness of farmers and veterinary practitioners.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1746-6148-8-116","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,7,20]],"date-time":"2012-07-20T23:55:27Z","timestamp":1342828527000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":62,"title":["Risk factors for contacts between wild boar and outdoor pigs in Switzerland and investigations on potential Brucella suis spill-over"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Natacha","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Carlos","family":"Abril","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Andreas","family":"Thomann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eleonore","family":"Grosclaude","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marcus G","family":"Doherr","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Patrick","family":"Boujon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marie-Pierre","family":"Ryser-Degiorgis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,7,20]]},"reference":[{"issue":"4","key":"410_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"868","DOI":"10.7589\/0090-3558-47.4.868","volume":"47","author":"N Wu","year":"2011","unstructured":"Wu N, Abril C, Vladimira H, Brodard I, Th\u00fcr B, Fattebert J, H\u00fcssy D, Ryser-Degiorgis M-P: Free-ranging wild boar: a disease threat to domestic pigs in Switzerland?. 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