Swine Health - PRRS
PRRSV Modulation of the Porcine Antibody Repertoire
Antibody responses play a crucial role in defense against many viral diseases, and knowledge of critical functions can be used to monitor and...
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Swine Health - General Disease
Effect of PCV2 vaccination on chronic PCV2 infection and determination of infectivity of PCV2 present in chronically infected pigs
The objectives were to determine transmissibility of PCV2 to naïve contact pigs 140 days after infection of resident pigs and the...
Swine Health - General Disease
The prevalence of PCV2 viremia in conventional piglets born to PCV2- vaccinated and non-vaccinated sows and effect of PCV2 viremia on pig performance
The objectives of this study were to further confirm vertical transmission of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) and determine the effect of dam vaccination on PCV2 viremia in newborn piglets. Seventy...
Animal Well-being
Optimized alternative housing and management strategies enhance sow well-being
These data provide scientific support that the type of individual stall a sows is housed in for the 1st 30 days prior to being moved to...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Application of a novel inhibition mechanism to control E. coli O157:H7 and other non-O157:H7 pathogenic E. coli.
Enterohemorrhagic and exotoxigenic E. coli (EHEC and ETEC) pose a variety of animal health and food safety challenges for the food animal industry. E. coli F4 is an ETEC pathogen that is an...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Interactive effects of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and housing system on sow performance and longevity
Background: Use of DDGS in diets for growing swine has been the focus of much research effort in the past 5 – 7 years with little attention paid to DDGS use in diets for breeding females....
Swine Health - General Disease
The efficacy of sow vaccination with commercial PCV2 vaccines and an experimental live PCV1-2 product
Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is associated with reproductive failure in the field and because of this PCV2 vaccines are now being used in some breeding herds. Research has demonstrated that PCV2...
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Additional features to the porcine 3D model to teach the sub-primal and retail cuts of the pork carcass
Increasing demand for pork requires that new uses for existing underutilized muscles in the pork carcass be developed into new and novel products. Much of pork is purchased in the form of...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of novel mucosal vaccines for the control of PRRSV outbreaks
Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) is an economically important chronic viral disease of pigs. Available PRRS virus (PRRSV) vaccines are not completely protective to control the...
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Detection of tetracyclines and tetracycline resistant bacteria in soils under long-term swine effluent application
These days, there are increasing concerns that the use of veterinary antibiotics could enhance persistence of antibiotic resistant bacteria...
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Towards controlling antimicrobial resistance in swine production systems: harnessing the paradoxical effects of micro-minerals and feed-grade antimicrobials on resistance in enteric bacteria
The present study was aimed at determining the effects of supplemental feed grade antimicrobials on the selection and co-selection of...
Pork Safety
Chlortetracycline, Oxytetracycline, Tetracycline and Bacitracin Tissue Residue Studies in Swine Conducted in Reference to Foreign Export Markets
The objective of this study was to describe tissue residues of chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline, and tetracycline in slaughter hogs and also bacitracin in cull sows. For the tetracyclines, the...
