Public Health - Salmonella
Salmonellosis from Pork Products: A Quantitative Risk Assessment
June 30, 2008By Emma Hartnett
We developed a farm-to-illness risk assessment to investigate the risk of human salmonellosis from the consumption of fresh pork. The risk assessment explores major issues in both pre-harvest and...
Swine Health - PRRS
Using Direct Virus Exposure in Conjunction with Modified Herd Closure for a PRRS Eradication Program
June 30, 2008By Paul Yeske
PRRS virus can be eradicated using direct virus exposure and herd closure of at least 200 days. • This can be done in a cost effective manner with the only additional cost is renting a site to...
Swine Health - General Disease
Understanding if porcine circovirus type 2 strain differences explain the recent Canadian outbreak
June 25, 2008By Patrick Halbur
In 2004, a marked increase in the incidence and severity of porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVAD) was observed in eastern Canada. The severe outbreaks of PCVAD in Canada, followed by similar...
Swine Health - General Disease
The role of boar semen in porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) transmission: Validation of diagnostic tools and determination of infectivity of PCV2 positive semen samples
June 25, 2008By Patrick Halbur
Within the past 3 years, North American has seen a marked increase in porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) associated disease (PCVAD). The rapid spread of PCVAD has raised important questions about...
Swine Health - PRRS
Rational Design of a New Generation of PRRSV Differential (Marker) Vaccines (Renewal Summer 2006)
June 24, 2008By Fernando Osorio
This project is based on two main premises: 1) the conviction that the use of vaccines will always be a cost-efficient method and the preferred approach to control PRRSV infections, and 2) the notion...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Quantifying Salmonella and Campylobacter Peri-harvest in Swine
June 23, 2008By Tom Wittum
Salmonella and Campylobacter are estimated to cause 3.9 million illnesses annually in the United States, and most of these illnesses are food-related. Pigs can be sub-clinically infected with these...
Swine Health - PRRS
Exploring PRRS virus GP5 peptides for protective cross-reactive T cellepitopes
June 16, 2008By Carol Wyatt
Current vaccines have not met the needs of producers who want to control and eliminate PRRS. Development of vaccines that elicit protective anti-viral immune responses requires identification of...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Enumeration of Salmonella throughout the Pork Harvesting Process
June 15, 2008By Michael Guerini
This project provides comprehensive information on the levels and prevalence of Salmonella on pork carcasses during processing to benchmark the effectiveness of in-plant interventions on Salmonella...
Environment - Air
Monitoring Ambient Atmospheric Chemistry Along a Gradient of Ammonia Emission Density in Eastern North Carolina
June 15, 2008By Wayne P. Robarge
This project was designed to address the National Pork Board objective of needing to know ambient concentrations of gases emitted from swine operations (in particular ammonia, NH3) both...
Environment - Other
Thermochemical Conversion Process to Produce Oil from Swine Manure
June 6, 2008By Yuanhui Zhang
Laboratory scale tests show that more than 60% of the volatile solids in swine manure can be converted to bio-crude oil using a thermo-chemical conversion (TCC) process. The process can work with...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of a surveillance system to monitor the genetic variability and molecular epidemiology of swine bacterial pathogens
June 4, 2008By Simone Oliveira
The objective of this project was to develop a surveillance system to monitor the genetic variability and molecular epidemiology of swine bacterial pathogens. The specific aims of this projects were:...
Swine Health - PRRS
Enhancement of in vitro replication efficiency of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) in MARC-145 cell line
June 4, 2008By Frederick Leung
Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) affects porcine industry globally and brings a significant economic loss in the agricultural sector. It is reported that both European and North...
