Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
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Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Improvement of Interferon Biotherapeutics for Foot-and-mouth Disease in Swine
Swine Health - PRRS
Improving the performance of PRRSV oral fluid diagnostics
Swine Health - PRRS
Mechanism of Antibody-Mediated Neutralization of PRRSV
One of the challenges in developing effective vaccines for PRRSV is the limited understanding of how neutralizing antibody inhibits PRRSV replication, and how variation in PRRSV leads to escape from...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluating the effects of chemical treatments to reduce the likelihood of PEDV transmission by feed manufacturing equipment.
The overall objective of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of various chemical mitigation products applied to different feed manufacturing surfaces on the reduction of porcine...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of novel reovirus-based mucosal vaccine vectors for PEDV antigen production
The goals of this project were to identify methods for the high-level expression of the PEDV S protein receptor-binding domain (RBD) from within the genome of the clinically benign virus, Mammalian...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Characterizing a U.S. swine movement network to enhance epidemiological modeling and response to transboundary animal diseases
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Working toward a CSFV oral fluid antibody ELISA: defining oral fluid antibody (IgA, IgG) kinetics against envelope glycoproteins (E2, Erns)
Classical swine fever (CSF) is a highly contagious disease causing significant economic losses to swine producers in many part of the world. Although the US has been recognized as a CSFV-free area,...
Swine Health - PRRS
Epitope Inclusion: Enhancing porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSv) vaccine cross-protective efficacy
Producers need better vaccines for controlling disease and spread associated with PRRSv infection. This has been an extremely different task because the face of PRRSv is constantly changing making an...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of Mortality Composting Parameters Necessary for Inactivation of PEDv
This project was conducted in an effort to determine the transmission risk for PEDv following on-farm composting of PEDv-positive swine mortalities. The studies performed were designed to...
