Swine Health - General Disease
Epidemiology of porcine pestivirus and Torque teno virus in wean-to-finish pigs
May 10, 2010By Jeffrey Zimmerman
Oral fluids are inexpensive to collect. Each pen sample requires a length of cotton rope, a plastic bag, and a snap-cap plastic tube. Labor costs include the time required to place...
Animal Well-being
Gestating sows’ preference for open, closed and animal-controlled stall designs
May 5, 2010By Ed Pajor
This project aimed to determine the preference of pigs for stalls as a function of stall design, home housing condition and the presence of socially dominant or subordinate group members. ...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Energy and amino acid digestibility of corn distillers syrup by-products in growing pigs
May 5, 2010By G.C. Shurson
Increased market competition for corn between the livestock and poultry industry and the ethanol industry has led to record high feed prices in recent years. As a result, pork producers have...
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Evaluation of lean content and trim of cull sows on their value at harvest
May 5, 2010By Ken Stalder
A study was conducted to estimate the lean content from the four USDA grades of cull sows, determine if standardized prediction equations for estimating cull sow lean content is possible and to...
Animal Well-being
Effects of floor space during transport and journey time on transport losses and well-being of market-weight pigs.
May 4, 2010By Michael Ellis
Transport losses represent a significant economic cost to the swine industry and are of major concern from an animal welfare perspective. Losses include pigs that die during the journey or are...
Pork Quality
The influence of facility design and pre-sorting on the stress response and transportation losses of the market weight pig
May 3, 2010By Anna Johnson
Johnson et al. (2010) reported a 66 % reduction in transport losses in pigs raised in large pen configurations that were pre-sorted, however, the researchers could not determine if the transport loss...
Swine Health - PRRS
Evaluation of adjuvants at the mucosal area for the development of innovative mucosal vaccine against PRRS
April 29, 2010By Renukaradhya Gourapura
Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) is a chronic and economically important viral disease of pigs. Currently available PRRS virus (PRRSV) vaccines have been administered systemically...
Swine Health - PRRS
Identifying PRRSV structural components that activate regulatory T cells and diminish protective immunity
April 26, 2010By Tanya LeRoith
This study was designed to test the hypothesis that certain structural components of PRRSV drive the activation of regulatory T cells (Tregs). Activating these T cells would thereby diminish the...
Swine Health - General Disease
Epidemiological investigation of the role of retroviremia in endemic diseases of swine.
April 20, 2010By R. Butch Baker
Endogenous retroviruses are present in all bird and mammalian species including the pig. In humans most are benign but some are thought to be associated with genetic, autoimmune, and other...
Swine Health - General Disease
PCV2 replication and disease enhancement through lymphocyte stimulation
April 19, 2010By Dr. Eileen Thacker
Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) causes a number of diseases including PMWS. The number of pigs that are infected with PCV2 that go on to clinical disease is extremely variable. The exact mechanism...
Swine Health - General Disease
Influenza Vaccination of Pigs in the Presence of Maternally-Derived Antibodies
April 14, 2010By D.L. Hank Harris
A vaccine was constructed using a gene from swine influenza and structural genes from alphavirus as the vaccine backbone. This vaccine induced both immunity and strong protection when given to...
Swine Health - General Disease
Investigations into the etiology of the sudden emergence of mulberry heart disease in pig herds across the U.S. in 2007
April 14, 2010By Tanja Opriessnig
