Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Pork Checkoff Research
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Swine Health - PRRS
United States Swine Pathogen Database
Veterinarians have long needed a centralized database to compare and contrast the pathogen nucleotide sequences of their clinical samples to those seen concurrently in the field throughout the United States.
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Development and Evaluation of a Standardized Protocol for Utilization of Swine Oral fluids for PCR detection of High Consequence Pathogens: FMD, CSF, and ASF
The primary objective of this project was to develop a standard operating procedure for the use of swine oral fluids (SOF) as a diagnostic specimen for detection of endemic viral diseases such as...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Determination of the role of L83L, an uncharacterized ASFV protein that binds IL-1β during ASFV infection
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Rapid detection and epidemiological surveillance of African Swine Fever using oral fluid
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Protective Efficacy of an Adenovirus-vectored ASFV Multi-antigen Cocktail
Public Health - MRSA
Investigation and Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteriophages that Inhabit Swine Production Environments
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Determining the optimal dietary lysine:energy ratios for health challenged grow-finish pigs
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Development and Validation of a Standardized Scientific Protocol Evaluating Antibiotic Alternatives in Growing Pigs
Heightened interest in reducing antibiotic usage in pork production leaves producers looking for effective alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) in swine diets. While there are a...
Animal Well-being
National survey of Salmonella prevalence in lymph nodes of sows and market hogs
Animal Science
Modeling Conductive Heat Transfer Through and Around Grow-Finish Pigs
Animal Science
