Swine Health - PRRS
Development of a Novel Self-Propagating PRSSV-VSV G Hybrid Replicon as a Vector for Inducing Broad PRRSV Protection
August 25, 2016By Asit Pattnaik
Throughout successive cycles of Pork Check-off funding, our laboratories (Pattnaik’s and Osorio’s labs) have consistently produced new and fundamental information on: (i) the...
Swine Health - General Disease
Assessing the effects of medium chain fatty acids and fat sources on PEDv by qRT-PCR and bioassay
August 19, 2016By Cassandra Jones
Research has confirmed that chemical treatments, such as medium chain fatty acids (MCFA) and commercial formaldehyde, can be effective to reduce the risk of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV)...
Other
Pork offal bone literature review and industry survey
July 15, 2016By William Benjy Mikel
The ability of the pork industry to enhance profitability is best found through the utilization of low value products that are not commonly accepted for consumption in the United States, ie offal...
Other
Pork variety meat offal global safety and quality literature search and industry survey
July 15, 2016By William Benjy Mikel
The ability of the pork industry to enhance profitability is best found through the utilization of low value products that are not commonly...
Development of swine influenza virus platform vector vaccines to control swine influenza virus and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus
June 28, 2016By Ben Hause
Influenza A virus (IAV) causes significant losses to the swine industry. Here we constructed a novel attenuated live IAV vaccine designed to elicit an immune response to conserved IAV proteins by...
Animal Science - Reproductive & Growth Physiology
Effects of betaine and heat stress on lactation and post-weaning reproductive performance on sows
June 27, 2016By Kara Stewart
Heat stress has multiple negative impacts on animal metabolism and physiology and is thought to cost the swine industry more than $360 million per...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Correlation between physical characteristics of diets and absorption of energy by pigs
June 27, 2016By Hans H. Stein
Distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS), wheat middlings, and soybean hulls are cost-effective co-products that may replace some corn in swine diets. However, these co-products contain more...
Swine Health - General Disease
Ex-vivo bioassay method to assess viral infectivity in feeds and non-traditional sample matrices
June 27, 2016By Kyoung-Jin Yoon
Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), caused by a coronavirus (PEDV), is a newly emerged enteric disease of swine, which was confirmed in the United States for the first time in April 2013. Since then,...
Public Health - MRSA
Prevalence of zinc resistance encoded by the czrC gene in US swine-associated MRSA ST5 strains
June 23, 2016By Rodger Main
Livestock associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) draws concern from the public health community because in some...
Swine Health - General Disease
Live-animal assay for identifying correlates of cross-protection for swine influenza virus vaccines when vaccinated in the presence of maternal antibody.
June 21, 2016By Crystal Loving
Experimental live-attenuated influenza virus (LAIV) vaccines, delivered into the nose, have been shown protect pigs against influenza infection, more so than traditional inactivated commercial...
Swine Health - General Disease
Neuropathogenesis of a brain-derived Porcine teschovirus type 11 strain or a brain-derived Porcine sapelovirus strain in 3-week-old CDCD pigs
June 2, 2016By Gregory W. Stevenson
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of on-farm PRRSV surveillance guidelines for the modern pork industry
June 2, 2016By Jeffrey Zimmerman
Oral fluids (OF) are a convenient surveillance sample because they (1) are easily collected by a single person; (2) can be collected frequently without stress to pigs or people; and (3) provide...
