Swine Health - PRRS
Preweaning surveillance: Finger on the pulse of PRRSV epidemiology, transmission and spread
April 16, 2013By Jeffrey Zimmerman
We believe that achieving control of PRRSV will require the industry to develop the capacity to easily, efficiently, and continuously surveil herds for PRRSV. The objective of the research was...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of envelope proteins for rapid induction of protective immune response against classical swine fever
April 16, 2013By Manuel Borca
The main objective of this research project was to determine if native and/or modified forms of Classical Swine Fever Virus (CSFV) proteins present in the surface of the virion were able to...
Environment - Environmental Footprint
LCA of Alternate Swine Management
April 7, 2013By Greg Thoma
Life cycle analyses of eight pork production strategies for three environmental impact categories yielded a range of results, from a 17 percent increase in global warming potential (removing...
Human Nutrition
Daily Addition of a Protein-rich Breakfast for Long-term Improvements In Energy Intake Regulation and Body Weight Management in Overweight & Obese ‘Breakfast Skipping’ Young People
April 1, 2013By Heather Leidy
Objective To identify whether the daily addition of a Normal- Protein (NP) vs. High-Protein (HP) breakfast leads to long-term improvements in energy intake regulation and body weight management in...
Swine Health - PRRS
PRRSV Identification by Virochip
April 1, 2013By Tracy Nicholson
Current identification and surveillance practices for PRRSV involves a few selected U.S. veterinary diagnostic laboratories performing quantitative RT-PCR and ORF5 nucleotide sequencing followed...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Does the inclusion of distillers dried grains with soluble (DDGS) in the diet of grow-finish pigs affect their susceptibility to and colonization with Salmonella enterica?
April 1, 2013By Marcos Rostagno
As an alternative to counteract the increased feed costs, dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) have been increasingly included in pig diets. Much research has been conducted recently to...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Effects of reducing the particle size of corn on the concentration of digestible and metabolizable energy and on the digestibility of energy, phosphorus, and amino acids by growing pigs
April 1, 2013By Hans H. Stein
The objective of this research was to measure the effects of different particle sizes of corn on energy and nutrient digestibility and to test the hypothesis that diets containing corn with reduced...
Animal Science - Breeding & Genetics
The economic value of genomic selection to swine breeding herds
April 1, 2013By Kenneth J. Stalder
Many swine breeding organizations are in the early stages of the decision making or implementation process regarding incorporation of genome-enabled selection into a breeding program. However,...
Swine Health - General Disease
Effects of Exposure to Organic Dust on Macrophage Function: Implications for Swine Respiratory Health
March 21, 2013By Christopher Tuggle
Exposure to the dust in pig barns has been shown to affect short-term measures of inflammation and immune function in swine workers. Models of such exposure that used human or mouse lung immune...
Swine Health - General Disease
Novel multiplex diagnostic assays development for diagnosis of porcine respiratory disease complex
March 6, 2013By Ying Fang
Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex (PRDC) is a significant economic problem for swine producers. PRDC outbreaks can cause elevated mortality, decreased feed efficiency, higher cull rates, increased...
Animal Science
Using objective behavioral measurements to build robust producer tools for detecting, scoring and treating lameness in sows
March 5, 2013By Anna Johnson
Lameness associated with painful joint lesions has been identified as a welfare challenge for confined sows. It has been ranked as the number 3 reason for culling sows; comprising 15% of the culls...
Swine Health - General Disease
Immune correlates of clinical outcomes in maternal antibody-positive piglets vaccinated with attenuated or killed SIV and challenged with an antigenic variant
March 1, 2013By Matthew Sandbulte
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY. Current SIV vaccines, which contain whole inactivated virus (WIV), do not provide broad cross-protection against new variants, and maternal antibodies inhibit...
