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...
Swine Health - General Disease
Generation of specimens of precisely known coronavirus infection status for the development and validation of highly-specific porcine coronavirus antibody assays.
December 8, 2016By Luis Gimenez-Lirola
• In the field, pigs are exposed to different coronaviruses that are known to share genetic and antigenic traits that may contribute to false-positive results. Recent evidence suggesting...
Swine Health - General Disease
Determination of the importance of porcine parvovirus type 2 (PPV2) in porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVAD) outbreaks by elimination of PPV2 through vaccination at weaning
December 2, 2016By Tanja Opriessnig
Despite widespread porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) vaccination in the growing pig population, occurrence of porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVAD) can be observed particularly in larger...
Swine Health - General Disease
A candidate swine influenza virus vaccine: in vivo evaluation of novel chimeric hemagglutinins expressed by parainfluenza virus 5 (PIV5) vector
December 1, 2016By Victor Huber
The goal of this project was to evaluate candidate influenza vaccines that induce broad immunity against multiple influenza viruses in pigs. These vaccines have been designed to induce immune...
Swine Health - General Disease
Factors that influence mechanical transmission of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus at the time of Unloading Animals into Slaughter Plant Lairage
November 30, 2016By James Lowe
PEDV continues to be spread between herds in the US. Livestock transport to harvest plants has been identified as a likely route of PEDV movement between herds. In this study we assessed which...
