Swine Health - General Disease
Pilot study to develop ante-mortem synovial fluid and synovium sample collection techniques in growing swine and to refine a Mycoplasma hyosynoviae (MHS) arthritis case definition (453-23-79)
November 30, 2016By Locke Karriker|Paisley Canning
Infectious lameness in growing pigs is an emerging problem in the United States. Lameness is an animal welfare concern and increases production costs. Mycoplasma hyosynoviae is considered to be the...
Swine Health - PRRS
Characterization of high passages of an interferon-inducing PRRSV strain
November 20, 2016By Yan-Jin Zhang
As stated in the contract, we require an industry summary of the project, suitable for immediate public release by the Board. The purpose of the industry summary is to provide producers...
Swine Health - PRRS
Determination of the PRRSV minor glycoproteins contribution to antigenicity and protection
November 18, 2016By Ben Hause
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) has been the most significant disease affecting swine in the U.S. for decades. Contemporary epidemiological methods rely on sequencing of...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluating alternative chemical mitigants to prevent PEDV recontamination of swine feed and ingredients
September 10, 2016By Cassandra Jones
Research has confirmed that chemical treatments, such as medium chain fatty acids (MCFA) and commercial formaldehyde, can be effective to reduce the risk of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV)...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of a Novel Self-Propagating PRSSV-VSV G Hybrid Replicon as a Vector for Inducing Broad PRRSV Protection
August 25, 2016By Asit Pattnaik
Throughout successive cycles of Pork Check-off funding, our laboratories (Pattnaik’s and Osorio’s labs) have consistently produced new and fundamental information on: (i) the...
Swine Health - General Disease
Assessing the effects of medium chain fatty acids and fat sources on PEDv by qRT-PCR and bioassay
August 19, 2016By Cassandra Jones
Research has confirmed that chemical treatments, such as medium chain fatty acids (MCFA) and commercial formaldehyde, can be effective to reduce the risk of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV)...
Swine Health - General Disease
Ex-vivo bioassay method to assess viral infectivity in feeds and non-traditional sample matrices
June 27, 2016By Kyoung-Jin Yoon
Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), caused by a coronavirus (PEDV), is a newly emerged enteric disease of swine, which was confirmed in the United States for the first time in April 2013. Since then,...
Swine Health - General Disease
Live-animal assay for identifying correlates of cross-protection for swine influenza virus vaccines when vaccinated in the presence of maternal antibody.
June 21, 2016By Crystal Loving
Experimental live-attenuated influenza virus (LAIV) vaccines, delivered into the nose, have been shown protect pigs against influenza infection, more so than traditional inactivated commercial...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of on-farm PRRSV surveillance guidelines for the modern pork industry
June 2, 2016By Jeffrey Zimmerman
Oral fluids (OF) are a convenient surveillance sample because they (1) are easily collected by a single person; (2) can be collected frequently without stress to pigs or people; and (3) provide...
Swine Health - General Disease
Neuropathogenesis of a brain-derived Porcine teschovirus type 11 strain or a brain-derived Porcine sapelovirus strain in 3-week-old CDCD pigs
June 2, 2016By Gregory W. Stevenson
