Evaluation of the risk of a feed mill being contaminated with PEDv or PDCov
February 6, 2015By Laura Greiner
Twenty-four feed mills from various regions (Eastern, Midwest, Western, and Northern Midwest) in the US were evaluated in this study to assess the risk of different areas within a mill to test...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Development of African swine fever diagnostic assays for oral fluids
February 4, 2015By Jeffrey Zimmerman
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is of concern to pork producers because of its high mortality rate, its severe economic impact, and its rapid geographic expansion in recent years. Prevention and...
PDCoV ELISA development
February 2, 2015By Michael P. Murtaugh
Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) was first identified in the United States in February 2014 in pigs with unexplained diarrheal disease in which PDCoV was later observed to be present. Diagnosis of...
PEDV antibody-based diagnostic test improvement for evaluation of immunity in milk, feces, and serum
February 2, 2015By Michael P. Murtaugh
Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), an enteric coronavirus related to transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV), appeared suddenly in the United States in April 2013. Epidemic sow herd...
Swine Health - General Disease
A study to assess the correlation between plasma, oral fluid and urine concentrations of flunixin meglumine with the tissue residue depletion profile in finishing age swine
February 1, 2015By Hans Coetzee
The United States is the world’s leading exporter of pork. In recent years, several of these pork export destination countries have implemented more stringent monitoring protocols...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Evaluating Immunogenicity of a Novel Live-vectored Prototype ASFV Vaccine
January 30, 2015By Waithaka Mwangi
The African Swine Fever Virus is a high-consequence pathogen that causes hemorrhagic fever in pigs and some isolates are capable of killing nearly all infected pigs. The pathogen poses a high...
Animal Well-being
Systematic Literature Review and Needs Assessment of Housing Systems for Lactating sows and Their Litters
January 29, 2015By Thomas Parsons
The farrowing crate is one of several common animal husbandry practices facing increased public scrutiny across the globe. Like a gestation stall, similar welfare concerns are expressed about...
Development of reagents and serological assays for porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV)
January 29, 2015By Eric A. Nelson
A novel porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) was reported in China in 2012 and identified in the U.S. in early 2014. Since then, PDCoV has been identified in a number of U.S. states and linked with...
Determining the impact of conditioning time and temperature in pelleted diets on porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) survivability in complete swine diets
January 27, 2015By Jason Woodworth
Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv) has profoundly affected the U.S. swine industry since it emerged May 2013. Since late January 2014, it has been suspected that PEDv outbreaks have been...
Development of pseudotyped reporter viruses for detection and characterization of neutralizing antibody response to PEDV and Deltacoronavirus
January 23, 2015By Susan Carpenter
The overall objective of this research was to generate biological reagents for detection and characterization of neutralizing antibody to PEDV and Porcine Deltacoronavirus. (PDCoV). The specific goal...
Risk assessment of feed ingredients of porcine origin as vehicles for transmission of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV)
January 16, 2015By Peter Davies
Risk assessment is a set of formal methods used to try to quantify risk associated with a defined activity. Generally it involves integrating all the information that can be found on the...
Animal Science
The effects of increasing niacin supplementation on growth performance, and pork quality of finishing pigs raised in seasonal heat stress
January 6, 2015By Joel DeRouchey
The overall hypothesis was that increasing the supplementation of niacin to finishing pigs during periods of heat stress can increase skin vasodilation which will improve heat abatement and...
