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The extensive movement of animals, personnel, and materials facilitates the spread of infectious agents within and between countries, e.g., PEDV, ASFV, and others. Thus, an effective national surveillance system is crucial to the early detection, control, and elimination of notifiable pathogens.
The objective of this project was to determine appropriate application of best practices for responsible import of feed and ingredients from ASF/CSF affected countries and to develop industry standards for feed biosecurity that can be rapidly implemented across the swine and feed industry in the event that ASFV or CSFV enters the US domestic and/or feral swine population.
Among the techniques analyzed – shallow burial with carbon (SBC), whole carcass composting (WCC), and ground carcass composting (GCC), each with and without the addition of biochar – SBC treatments exhibited the most favorable overall performance in terms of both biosecurity and natural resource protection.
This project will address several concerns related to composting slurry/manure.
This study was to evaluate the ability of the vaccine to be lyophilized, and the stability of the vaccine under different storage conditions.
Overall, this study provides data on novel diagnostic sample types in a unique natural consumption model with potential benefits towards enhanced surveillance and early ASFV detection.
In this study we aimed to identify proteins in ASFV using serum containing antibodies from animals with live-attenuated vaccinated animals, that could be used as targets for a serological assay to differentiate between vaccinated and infected animals, these identified proteins were attempted to be deleted from a field isolate of highly pathogenic ASFV, to determine if they could be deleted.
The purpose of this literature review was to identify the pathways by which feral swine might transmit ASFV to domestic pigs in the US.
This project addresses the need to develop and validate a CSF diagnostic test with DIVA capabilities, and improving specificity and sensitivity compared to current methods.
The objectives of this review are to describe the current knowledge of ASFV survival in raw materials used to produce porcine-based ingredients, identify priorities for future research, and summarize potential options for managing risk until additional knowledge can be gained.
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