Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
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Swine Health - PRRS
Evaluation, optimization, and application of “processing fluids” for PRRSV monitoring in commercial swine herds
Swine Health - PRRS
Monitoring and updating the value of productivity losses due to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus
Swine Health - General Disease
Comparative genomic and virulence analysis of Streptococcus suis isolates
Swine Health - General Disease
Achieving safe introduction of naïve gilts into M. hyopneumoniae endemically infected herds: Protecting existing sows, exposing incoming gilts, and minimizing shedding to the offspring
Swine Health - General Disease
Mycoplasma hyorhinis and Mycoplasma hyosynoviae in US herds: Characterization of detection patterns in oral fluids and clinical presentation
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Negative cohort study plan for the estimation of diagnostic specificity of Two PCR assays for the detection of Classical Swine Fever, African Swine Fever and Foot and Mouth disease viruses in oral fluid samples
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Negative cohort study plan for the estimation of diagnostic specificity of Two PCR assays for the detection of Classical Swine Fever, African Swine Fever and Foot and Mouth disease viruses in oral fluid samples
Swine Health - PRRS
Impact of host immunity and genetics on persistence of PRRS virus in tonsils
Despite extensive efforts to eliminate PRRS from US production facilities, it remains a key disease issue and poses a continued economic threat to the industry, particularly in pig dense areas.
Swine Health - General Disease
Development and Validation of Novel Diagnostic Assays and Investigation of Disease Pathogenesis for Infectious Arthritis in Growing Pigs
Formerly a "fringe" issue, lameness in swine production has become a priority in the face of recent veterinary and producer-driven lameness investigations showing that losses attributable to lameness...
