Swine Health - PRRS
A pilot project to determine the feasibility of controlling PRRS within a selected region
January 12, 2006By Robert Morrison
The purpose of this project was to determine if pork producers within a defined region were willing to test their herds for PRRS virus, share the results with other cooperating producers, and share...
Swine Health - PRRS
Assesment Of Vertical Transmission From Parity One Sows Infected With A Low Dose And Mild Pathogenic Prrsv Isolate
December 1, 2005By Robert Morrison
In order to generate a protocol to sample lactating piglets to evaluate PRRSV chronically infected herds twelve PRRSV naïve pregnant sows were individually housed and assigned to three different...
Swine Health - PRRS
Rational Design of a New Generation of PRRSV Differential (Marker) Vaccines
October 21, 2005By Fernando Osorio
We started this project with the conviction that the use of vaccines will always be a cost-efficient method and the preferred approach to control PRRSV infections , provided the efficacy and safety...
Swine Health - PRRS
Proof-of-Concept -Anti-Idiotype Induces Anti-PRRSV Neutralizing Antibodies in Swine
June 7, 2005By En-Min Zhou
PRRS is the most costly disease U.S. swine producers confront and little progress has been made in recent years to mprove the situation. In studying swine antibody responses, we discovered the...
Swine Health - PRRS
Purified PRRS Viral Proteins
May 16, 2005By Laura Kakach
PRRS virus proteins that are immunogenic in pigs were expressed and purified. Nsp2p and nucleocapsid proteins are and will be available to PRRS researchers and can be used to detect exposure to PRRS...
Swine Health - PRRS
Sampling of adult boars during early infection using a new serum collection technique for PRRS PCR testing prior to semen collection
April 1, 2005By Darwin L. Reicks
In the study, serum had a higher quantity of virus than the blood swab samples as expected. The blood swab method can be done on boars each collection day, thus is user-friendly when compared with...
Swine Health - PRRS
Genetic Resistance to Porcine Reproductive Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV)
February 10, 2004By Rodger K. Johnson
In the experiment pigs of two distinctly different populations were challenged with PRRS virus. The lines differed in physiological responses to virus (body temperature, weight gain, ability to...
Swine Health - PRRS
Effect of repeated PRRSSV vaccination on lymphocyte response in sows
April 17, 2001By Eileen Thacker
Swine Health - PRRS
Breed and Litter Factors Related to PRRSV Persistence and Clearance and Persistence and Shedding of PRRSV in Breeding Swine as Determined by PCR and Serology
April 9, 2001By David Benfield
Swine Health - PRRS
Evaluation of a macrophage attenuated isolate of PRRSV as a vaccine for PRRS
September 11, 2000By David Benfield
