Swine Health - General Disease
Immune correlates of clinical outcomes in maternal antibody-positive piglets vaccinated with attenuated or killed SIV and challenged with an antigenic variant
March 1, 2013By Matthew Sandbulte
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY. Current SIV vaccines, which contain whole inactivated virus (WIV), do not provide broad cross-protection against new variants, and maternal antibodies inhibit...
Swine Health - General Disease
Investigating the role of PB1-F2 in the pathogenicity of circulating strains of SIV
August 18, 2012By Cathy Miller
The objectives of this study were to initiate an investigation into the impact of a newly identified influenza virus protein, PB1-F2, in swine lineage influenza virus (SIV) pathogenicity....
Swine Health - General Disease
Serological Approach for Diagnosis and Surveillance of Multiple Agents in Serum and Oral Fluid Samples
March 8, 2012By Raymond R. Rowland
Fluorescent microsphere immunoassay (FMIA), also known as “Luminex,” allows for the detection of antibodies to multiple antigens in a single, small volume of sample, and can be...
Swine Health - General Disease
Genetic assessment of VDL SIV isolate pool for evidence of the swine flu strain reported to be infecting people and development of a high-throughput differential test for the novel strain
August 6, 2011By Kyoung-Jin Yoon
A novel H1N1 influenza virus (initially named “Swine Flu” and now referred to as “2009 pandemic H1N1”) emerged and caused widespread clinical disease in US and other...
Swine Health - General Disease
Contribution of prior SIV infection in enhancing secondary Haemophilus parasuis disease
July 25, 2011By Crystal Loving
Porcine respiratory disease complex (PRDC) is a multifactorial disease process with a variety of infectious agents contributing to disease. The complex cannot be simply explained as infection with...
Swine Health - PRRS
Gene expression in lymph nodes of PRRSV-infected pigs
June 17, 2011By Laura Miller
The aim of this study was to acquire a better understanding of PRRS disease through a deeper knowledge of gene expression changes that occur in pulmonary lymph nodes during acute comparative porcine...
Swine Health - PRRS
Optimization of the PRRSV antibody ELISA for use in oral fluid-based surveillance
February 4, 2010By Jeffrey Zimmerman
PRRSV, M. hyopneumoniae, influenza, PCV2, and other endemic pathogens continue to cause significant economic losses to U.S. swine producers. In part, the disease status quo is maintained by the...
Swine Health - General Disease
Is humoral immunity defective in PCV-2 infected piglets?
July 29, 2009By John Butler
Porcine multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) emerged in the mid and late 1990s in herds infected with porcine circovirus type-2 (PCV-2). A growing database of field observations and experimental...
Environment - Air
Simultaneous treatment of swine odor and airborne pathogens by UV254 light –
March 21, 2009By Jacek Koziel
A 1-year feasibility study was conducted, aiming to explore the effectiveness of UV light for simultaneous treatment of odor, odorous VOCs and airborne pathogen emissions from swine operations....
Swine Health - PRRS
The Comparative T-cell Repertoire Response in PRRSV, SIV and PCV2 Infected Piglets
October 13, 2008By John Butler
Viral infection exposes the host immune system to epitopes that are normally recognized by T cells and which leads to both cytotoxic responses against virus-infected cells and to B cells that make...
Swine Health - PRRS
B Cell Repertoire Diversification and Class Switch in PRRS
September 26, 2008By John Butler
Successful PRRSV vaccines and vaccination strategies are best employed when the host’s immune response to the pathogen is understood. Since it was generally known that PRRSV caused non-virus...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of a universal and differential serodiagnostic test for SIV
November 13, 2006By Kyoung-Jin Yoon
Swine influenza continues to be an economically significant respiratory disease in pigs of all ages. Serological testing is commonly employed to detect animals that have been exposed to swine...
