Swine Health - General Disease
Strategies to include STa antigen in vaccine development against porcine post-weaning diarrhea (PWD);
March 2, 2010By Weiping Zhang
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strains are a major cause of diarrhea disease in humans and farm animals. E. coli fimbriae or colonization factor antigens (CFAs) and enterotoxins including...
Swine Health - General Disease
Do capsid mutants with the PCV-2 genotype variations induce virulence differences in vitro and in vivo?
February 15, 2010By Beatrice Grasland
The porcine circovirus of type 2 (PCV-2) is involved in porcine circovirus diseases such as post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS), reproduction disorders, porcine dermatitis and...
Swine Health - General Disease
Prevalence of slaughter house condemnation due to Erysipelothrix sp. and further characterization of isolates associated with these cases
February 10, 2010By Tanja Opriessnig
The objective of this study was to confirm the presence and investigate the identity of Erysipelothrix spp. in condemned tissues obtained from a regional abattoir. Tissue specimens from 70 carcasses...
Swine Health - General Disease
PCVAD Induced Immune Dysfunction
January 13, 2010By Richard Hesse
This project included a team of PCVAD researchers from KSU, ISU and SDSU who utilized a single set of experimentally infected pigs to address several important questions related to pathobiology,...
Swine Health - General Disease
Mapping T cell epitopes in PCV2 capsid protein
December 11, 2009By Carol Wyatt
Effective circovirus vaccines require minimal numbers of conserved B and T cell epitopes that provide protective immunity. At the same time, vaccines must have the capacity to distinguish infected...
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 - 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...
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...
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...
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...
