Swine Health - General Disease
Linking veterinary diagnostic laboratory submissions and corresponding PEDV test results to spatiotemporal mapping tools: the future of disease management, control and elimination
January 6, 2016By Rodger Main
Streamlined systems that link diagnostic submissions and corresponding test results to spatiotemporal disease management tools are needed to enhance US pork producers’ ability to proficiently...
Animal Science
Evaluation of contributions to seasonal reproductive inefficiency
January 1, 2016By Lea Rempel
Seasonal reproductive inefficiency is globally observed within the swine industry. Even when photoperiod and temperature are controlled, reductions in pregnancies and subsequent farrowing rates...
Animal Science
Systematic Review of the Magnitude of Change in Prevalence and Quantity of Salmonella after Administration of Pathogen Reduction Treatments on Pork Carcasses
December 17, 2015By Annette O’Connor
Swine Health - PRRS
Determine the mechanisms of cross-protection against infection with a divergent porcine reproductive and respiratory virus strain
December 11, 2015By Hiep Vu
PRRS modified live virus (MLV) vaccines have been licensed for clinical administration for over 20 years. The vaccines confer solid protection against homologous PRRSV strains. However, the extent...
Public Health - Influenza
Epidemiological surveillance of influenza A viruses in pigs entering swine exhibitions
December 1, 2015By Andrew Bowman
Swine play a key role in the evolution and ecology of influenza A virus (IAV) infecting humans as pigs are a host species in which reassortment of the IAV segmented genome commonly occurs. Due to the...
Public Health - Other
Updated systematic review of the association between proximity to animal feeding operations and the health of individuals in nearby communities
November 24, 2015By Annette O’Connor
Our objective was to update a previous review of the scientific literature of the impact of living near animal feeding operations on human health. We conducted a search of the literature in October...
Pork Quality
Impact of Seasonal Heat Stress on Fatty Acid Composition and Pork Fat Quality
November 19, 2015By Lance Baumgard
Heat stress (HS) remains one of the most costly factors in the swine industry and is responsible for increased mortality, altered carcass compositions, reduced reproductive ability, and slower growth...
Animal Well-being
Evaluation of Transportation Conditions on Performance of Weaned and Feeder Pigs
November 19, 2015By Dr. Jay Harmon
Transportation of pigs at early ages may result in profit-stripping incidence of mortality and compromised animal welfare due to stress stemming from unfavorable transporting conditions. This...
Animal Well-being
Designer Diets Decrease Aggression and Increase Welfare
November 19, 2015By Donald Lay Jr
The current practice of pregnant sow housing uses individual housing in stalls. However, producers are under a great deal of pressure to return sows to group housing due to various reasons....
Animal Science
Impact of in utero heat stress on subsequent lactational performance and performance of offspring
November 19, 2015By Michelle L. Rhoads
This experiment evaluated the effects of heat stress across multiple generations. In a previous experiment, pregnant gilts were housed in either heat stress or thermoneutral (control) conditions...
Human Nutrition
Systematic review of red and processed meat consumption and cancer
November 18, 2015By Dominik Alexander
1. Objectives: National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and National Pork Board jointly funded a project for Dr. Dominik Alexander, PhD, MSPH (Principal Epidemiologist, EpidStat Institute) to...
Determination of the sites of tissue localization, routes of viral shedding, duration of virus carriage, kinetics of antibody response, and potential of aerosol transmission of Porcine Deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) following inoculation of nursing pigs and their dams
November 4, 2015By Richard Hesse|Sarah Vitosh-Sillman
Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) has recently emerged in the US. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the sites of tissue localization, routes of viral shedding, duration of virus...
