Swine Health - PRRS
Rational design of a broadly protective vaccine against porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus
November 14, 2014By Hiep Vu
Current PRRS vaccines are not adequately effective for control and eradication of PRRS. The main limitation of the current PRRS vaccines is their sub-optimal coverage against divergent PRRSV strains...
Swine Health - PRRS
Defining a Novel Structural Component of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus and its Role in Disease Pathogenesis
November 13, 2014By Kay S. Faaberg
The objective of this project was to characterize the makeup of nsp2, shown to be a new structural component of the PRRSV virion. Radiolabelled nsp2 protein, in the absence or presence of...
Swine Health - General Disease
Molecular Characterization and Protective/Diagnostic Application of the Capsular Polysaccharide of Haemophilus parasuis
November 5, 2014By Thomas Inzana
Haemophilus parasuis (Hps) is an important swine pathogen that can decimate a swine herd in less than 72 hours. Although this bacterium has devastating effects on pork producing facilities,...
Environment - Air
Mitigation of Air Emissions from Swine Buildings through the Photocatalytic Technology Using UV/TiO2
November 1, 2014By Zifei Liu
A honeycomb photocatalytic reactor was developed for treating air emissions from swine houses. The reactor was tested in lab and in the field. When residence time was long (8 to 16 seconds), the...
Oral fluid testing for cost-effective and efficient surveillance and control of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus in swine population
October 31, 2014By Kyoung-Jin Yoon
Swine oral fluid and sampling has been recently recognized as a sample matrix and a cost effective tool for surveillance of numerous pathogens, notably PRRSV and SIV. The project was to...
Animal Well-being
A Comprehensive Literature Review on the Development, Treatment and Prevention of Shoulder Lesions in Sows
October 30, 2014By Jennifer Brown
Shoulder ulcers (shoulder lesions) in sows are most commonly observed in the first weeks of lactation, following farrowing. The prevalence of this problem varies greatly from herd to herd due to a...
Animal Well-being
Weaned pig transport: animal welfare impact of duration of trip, and provision of feed and water
October 28, 2014By John McGlone
Weaned pigs are transported on many USA farms. Some are transported short distances and others many hours. During transport...
Infectivity of swine manure from pits at varying lengths of time post infection with Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) virus
October 28, 2014By S Tousignant
This project was designed to test manure from deep pits in 30 barns across southern Minnesota and Northern Iowa for the presence of viable PEDV in an effort to understand the risk of...
Environment - Air
Air Management Practices Assessment Tool – A Producer Guide to Comparing Mitigation Strategies
October 27, 2014By Dr. Jay Harmon
Swine producers strive to be good stewards of natural resources with or without regulations and air mitigation technologies may help to achieve that goal. Environmental and legal pressures may...
Swine Health - PRRS
Further development of an integrated mapping service to support regional control & elimination of PRRS virus
October 1, 2014By Robert B. Morrison
There are approximately 20 regional PRRS projects in the United States in various stages of progress. Each coordinator has their own approach to the challenges of mapping the region, many depending...
Swine Health - PRRS
Impact of pig farm density on incidence of PRRS in a cohort of sow herds
October 1, 2014By Robert B. Morrison
This project was designed to measure the incidence of PRRS infection in a cohort of US sow herds. Additionally, it sought to conduct a risk assessment based on the density of swine farms around...
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Strategy to preserve efficacies of antimicrobials against important swine pathogens
September 24, 2014By Robin C. Anderson
Naturally occurring efflux pump inhibitors have been shown to significantly inhibit the activity of efflux pumps contributing to antimicrobial resistance by many bacteria, particularly against...
