Total of 51 scientific posters were presented at the Annual Veterinary Meeting. 16 posters were selected for further reviewing. Three posters were awarded and one of them was made by DVM Sonja Virtanen from Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health. Title of the poster was “Piglets are the source of Yersinia enterocolitica on fattening farms.”

The authors of the work “Prevalence and prevention of pathogenic Yersinia on pig farms” were DVM Sonja Virtanen, DVM Laura Laakso, DVM, PhD Riikka Laukkanen-Ninios, Professor Maria Fredriksson-Ahomaa and Professor Hannu Korkeala.
Considerable variation exists in the prevalence of pathogenic Yersinia between different farms. The project is detecting the farm factors affecting the prevalence of pathogenic Yersinia. The aim of this study is to make recommendations, according to the results, on how to prevent pathogenic Yersinia at the farm level. The project started in the summer 2009 and will continue until the autumn 2012.

The project runs in co-operation with the Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health and the Association for Animal Disease Prevention. The project leader is Professor Hannu Korkeala and the corresponding researcher is DVM , Sonja Virtanen. The project is funded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.