Swine Health - General Disease
International collaboration to investigate the sensitivity and specificity of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae PCR assays
July 31, 2009By Eileen Thacker
Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (MHYO) remains a significant source of economic loss for today’s swine industry. Reliable diagnosis of this organism continues to be a challenge as demonstrated by the...
Swine Health - PRRS
Understanding the role of the regulatory immune response in porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus persistence
July 30, 2009By Tanya LeRoith
This study addressed an important question in the mechanism of persistence and immune suppression by PRRSV. PRRSV persistence currently is a major problem in the field. However, the mechanism by...
Swine Health - General Disease
Is humoral immunity defective in PCV-2 infected piglets?
July 29, 2009By John Butler
Porcine multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) emerged in the mid and late 1990s in herds infected with porcine circovirus type-2 (PCV-2). A growing database of field observations and experimental...
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Impact of organic acids and Quaternary Ammonium Compounds on Salmonella serovars with SGI1- mediated multi-antibiotic resistance
July 29, 2009By Mark A. Harrison
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Salmonella has been implicated in several infections and outbreaks worldwide; they have been linked to the consumption of contaminated products involving pork as well....
Swine Health - General Disease
Transmission of PCV2: Comparison of shedding patterns between PCV2a and PCV2b, evaluation of routes of transmission (fecal, oral, nasal, mechanical) and understanding the roles of spray-dried plasma and transport vehicles
July 22, 2009By Tanja Opriessnig
Temporal evidence correlated the emergence of PCV2b in the U.S. in 2005 with more frequent and severe porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVAD) cases. Information on the quantity and duration of...
Public Health - Other Zoonotic Diseases
Epidemiology, Toxino- and Geno-typing of Clostridium difficile in swine at farm, slaughter and retail
July 22, 2009By Wondwossen Gebreyes
We investigated the role of pigs in carrying important strains of C. difficile and the main goal was to determine the prevalence and compare strains of human and porcine origin. Samples were...
Swine Health - General Disease
Role of Cachectic Cytokines in PMWS
July 17, 2009By Carlos Pijoan|Thomas W. Molitor
An opportunity was presented whereas sequential samples were collected in the midst of a natural outbreak of PMWS. This provided the basis to evaluate immunological and virological events in the...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
White Paper on Human Illness Caused by Salmonella from all Food and Non-food Vectors
July 8, 2009By Charles Kaspar
Salmonellosis continues to be an important foodborne disease in the U.S. and worldwide. Even though illness caused by salmonellae is usually not very severe, there are such a large number of cases...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Ileal and total tract apparent and true digestibility of fat in distillers dried grains with solubles and other corn oil products fed to growing pigs
July 7, 2009By Hans Stein
The objective of this research was to test the hypothesis that oil in distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and other co-products from the ethanol industry such as high protein distillers...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae diagnostic tests using samples from naturally and experimentally infected pigs
July 6, 2009By Simone Oliveira
The objective of this study was to compare the performance of different diagnostic tests for the detection of pigs subclinically infected with Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae. To address this...
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in pigs, pork products and swine veterinarians
July 6, 2009By Peter Davies
Staphylococcus aureus is a bacteria found commonly on the skin and mucous membranes of mammals that can occasionally cause superficial or severe infections. Strains resistant to methicillin (MRSA)...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Survey of Injection Methodologies and Carcass Defects in Pork Production
July 3, 2009By C. Scanlon Daniels
The first objective of this project was to determine the current state of practice of injection methods on swine farms as reported by swine veterinarians. For breeding animals, the neck was the most...
