Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
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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...
Swine Health - PRRS
Detection and differentiation of field strains and commonly used vaccine strains of Type 2 PRRS virus in the US
PRRS remains the most economically devastating swine disease with an estimated annual loss of $664 million in the US. The PRRS genome is constantly changing, making accurate diagnosis difficult. Many...
Swine Health - PRRS
United States Swine Pathogen Database
Veterinarians have long needed a centralized database to compare and contrast the pathogen nucleotide sequences of their clinical samples to those seen concurrently in the field throughout the United States.
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Development and Evaluation of a Standardized Protocol for Utilization of Swine Oral fluids for PCR detection of High Consequence Pathogens: FMD, CSF, and ASF
The primary objective of this project was to develop a standard operating procedure for the use of swine oral fluids (SOF) as a diagnostic specimen for detection of endemic viral diseases such as...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Protective Efficacy of an Adenovirus-vectored ASFV Multi-antigen Cocktail
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Rapid detection and epidemiological surveillance of African Swine Fever using oral fluid
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Determination of the role of L83L, an uncharacterized ASFV protein that binds IL-1β during ASFV infection
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
