Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Analysis of in-plant Factors and Genotyping of Antimicrobial Resistance among Four Organisms Isolated from Swine Processing Plants
February 25, 2009By Wondwossen Gebreyes
We investigated the role of factors within processing plants including environmental and body site sources for carriage of for food safety significant pathogens and dissemination of antimicrobial...
Animal Science
Effect of Neonatal Litter Size and Early Puberty Stimulation on Sow Longevity and Reproductive Performance
February 23, 2009By W. L. Flowers
The current study was designed to examine the effects of neonatal environments and puberty induction strategies for replacement gilts on their longevity and reproductive performance over six...
Swine Health - General Disease
Role of Role of F4/F18 negative E. coli in post-weaning diarrhea and edema disease
February 19, 2009By Nancy Cornick
Veterinary diagnostic laboratories recover E. coli strains from sick piglets (with and without other pathogens) that do not encode for commonly encountered fimbrial adhesins but do contain genes for...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Utilizing Glycerol in Swine Diets: I. Feed Manufacturing Considerations and Nutritional Strategies to Reduce Dietary Costs
February 13, 2009By Leland McKinney
Biodiesel is an alternative to petroleum-based diesel fuel and according to the National Biodiesel Board, there are currently 105 biodiesel production facilities operating in the United States, and...
Swine Health - PRRS
Use of a production region model to evaluate biosecurity protocol efficacy for reducing the risk of PRRSV and Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae spread between farms
February 12, 2009By Scott Dee
The purpose of this 2-year project was to investigate the transmission of PRRSV and Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M hyo) by aerosols, the meteorological conditions associated with this route of spread...
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Tetracycline Concentrations and Circulation of tet Genes in Swine Feeding Operations and Adjacent Environments
February 10, 2009By Andrei Barkovskii
Farm animal manure-associated, antibiotic (AB)-resistant microorganisms and genes encoding this resistance are viewed as important sources for the observed increase of AB resistance in humans and...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Assessment of Corn Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) from Ethanol Production on Performance and Carcass Quality of Growing-Finishing Swine
February 10, 2009By G.L. Cromwell
A large collaborative experiment involving 560 crossbred pigs was conducted at nine experiment stations to assess the effects of feeding high levels of corn distillers dried grains with solubles...
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Pharmacokinetics and tissue residues of procaine penicillin G in sows after administration of 33,000 IU/kg intramuscularly and by needle-free injection in the hip
February 9, 2009By DACVCP|Mike Apley DVM|PhD
Forty sows were utilized in a study to determine the plasma concentration profile and tissue residues of procaine penicillin G after injection by two methods (20 sows each method). A target dose of...
Swine Health - General Disease
Comparison of the efficacy of sow vaccination versus piglet vaccination for PCV2 and evaluation of the impact of revaccination with a homologous PCV2 vaccine
February 6, 2009By R. Butch Baker
The objectives of this study were (1) to compare the efficacy of two different PCV2 vaccination protocols (maternally derived antibodies versus piglet vaccination) in a conventional PCV2 growing pig...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Net energy of three sources of distillers dried grains with solubles fed to growing and finishing pigs
February 5, 2009By Hans Stein
In North America, when energy is considered in formulation of swine diets, it is usually expressed as either digestible energy (DE) or metabolizable energy (ME). An energy system includes energy...
Swine Health - General Disease
Molecular Epidemiology of Porcine Circovirus in the US Swine Herd
February 2, 2009By Michael Murtaugh
Data from 187 finishing herds shows that PCV2 is nearly universally present as an active infection in finishing herds, often at moderate to high levels of viremia in the presence of anti-capsid...
Animal Well-being
Impact of Auto-sort Systems on Pig Welfare
February 2, 2009By Janeen L. Salak-Johnson PhD
A series of studies were designed to determine any impact of various autosort layouts on pig productivity and welfare. To accomplish this, Exp 1, we compared food-court, fast-lane, and water-pen...
