Swine Health - PRRS
Mechanism of Antibody-Mediated Neutralization of PRRSV
March 22, 2017By Susan Carpenter
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.
February 14, 2017By Jason Woodworth
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
February 2, 2017By Cathy Miller
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
February 1, 2017By Dr. Tim Boyer PhD
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)
January 20, 2017By Yaowalak Panyasing
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
January 6, 2017By Crystal Loving
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
December 29, 2016By Amy Schmidt
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...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
African Swine Fever Virus: a bioinformatics resource to support comparative genomics for vaccine and virulence studies
December 19, 2016By Dr. Chris Upton PhD
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of a vector platform to control swine enteric coronavirus disease
December 10, 2016By Diego Diel
Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) was first detected in the US in 2013. After its introduction, PEDV rapidly spread throughout the country, causing the deaths of over 7 million piglets and...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Use of animal movement data and epidemiological modeling to identify premises at high risk of infection in the event of a foot-and-mouth disease epidemic
December 8, 2016By Andres Perez
Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is one of the most contagious and economically relevant diseases affecting livestock and is rapidly transmitted between hosts. Fortunately, the US swine industry has...
