Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of novel reassortant swine influenza viruses
July 1, 2013By Wenjun Ma
Since the 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus (pH1N1) was found to transmit to pigs worldwide including in the USA, subsequent reassortment events between pH1N1 and endemic swine influenza viruses (SIVs)...
Swine Health - General Disease
Exploiting the potential of leader proteinase coding sequence of foot-and-mouth disease virus to derive attenuated strains suitable for pathogenesis studies and development of improved countermeasures
June 2, 2013By Teresa De Los Santos
FMD is the one of the most feared viral diseases that can affect swine. Although this disease appeared to be eliminated from most developed nations by the end of last century, recent outbreaks...
Swine Health - General Disease
Reverse Vaccinology and Genomics Towards Controlling Post-Weaning Diarrhea
May 1, 2013By Timothy Johnson
Post-weaning diarrhea (PWD) in pigs is a continuing problem for the swine industry. The goal of this study was to utilize a concept known as reverse vaccinology towards the identification of novel...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of envelope proteins for rapid induction of protective immune response against classical swine fever
April 16, 2013By Manuel Borca
The main objective of this research project was to determine if native and/or modified forms of Classical Swine Fever Virus (CSFV) proteins present in the surface of the virion were able to...
Swine Health - General Disease
Effects of Exposure to Organic Dust on Macrophage Function: Implications for Swine Respiratory Health
March 21, 2013By Christopher Tuggle
Exposure to the dust in pig barns has been shown to affect short-term measures of inflammation and immune function in swine workers. Models of such exposure that used human or mouse lung immune...
Swine Health - General Disease
Novel multiplex diagnostic assays development for diagnosis of porcine respiratory disease complex
March 6, 2013By Ying Fang
Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex (PRDC) is a significant economic problem for swine producers. PRDC outbreaks can cause elevated mortality, decreased feed efficiency, higher cull rates, increased...
Swine Health - General Disease
Immune correlates of clinical outcomes in maternal antibody-positive piglets vaccinated with attenuated or killed SIV and challenged with an antigenic variant
March 1, 2013By Matthew Sandbulte
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY. Current SIV vaccines, which contain whole inactivated virus (WIV), do not provide broad cross-protection against new variants, and maternal antibodies inhibit...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of classical swine fever virus diagnostic assays for porcine oral fluid samples
February 14, 2013By Roongroje Thanawongnuwech
With classical swine fever virus (CSFV) commonplace in the world and barely outside the borders of North America, it is reasonable to expect that CSFV will eventually be reintroduced into North...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of fluorescent recombinant antibodies to detect African swine fever virus in tissue samples and infected cells
February 13, 2013By Jose Escribano
The present project pretends to develop new reagents to solve an important gap in the African swine fever virus (ASFV) diagnosis. This virus is nowadays a real threat for Europe and,...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of an Improved Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae-Specific ELISA
February 7, 2013By F. Chris Minion
Improvement of serological-based diagnostics for Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infections in swine will require identification of mycoplasma-specific antigens and their use in an ELISA-based assay format...
