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
July 17, 2018By Dr. Jane Christopher-Hennings DVM MS
Swine Health - PRRS
Impact of host immunity and genetics on persistence of PRRS virus in tonsils
June 11, 2018By Dr. Joan K. Lunney Ph.D.
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
May 22, 2018By Dr. Bailey Arruda
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
April 13, 2018By Dr. Jianfa Bai Ph.D.
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
February 20, 2018By Dr. Kay S. Faaberg Ph.D.
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
February 14, 2018By Dr. Jesse Trujillo
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
February 9, 2018By Dr. Waithaka Mwangi
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Rapid detection and epidemiological surveillance of African Swine Fever using oral fluid
February 9, 2018By Dr. Juergen Richt Ph.D.
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Determination of the role of L83L, an uncharacterized ASFV protein that binds IL-1β during ASFV infection
February 9, 2018By Douglas Gladue
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Development and validaton of Singleplex and Multiplex Luminex Assays for Detection of antibodies to foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), swine vesicular disease (SVD), classical swine fever (CSF) and African swine fever (ASF) viruses in porcine oral fluids
December 12, 2017By Dr. Charles Nfon PhD