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
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Animal welfare implications resulting from movement restriction for foreign animal disease outbreak management in the pork industry
May 31, 2016By Hsin-Yi Weng
Trends in the U.S. swine industry show that over the years, there has been an increase in improved producer efficacy and the appearance of fewer but larger pig farms. These changes are reflected...
Swine Health - PRRS
Evaluation of immunodominant B- and T-cell epitopes as inducers of protective immunity against porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus
May 2, 2016By Diego Diel
Since its emergence in domestic pigs in the late 1980’s, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) has caused significant economic losses to swine producers worldwide. A...
Swine Health - General Disease
Determination of the virulence of an emerging porcine parvovirus (PPV2) and its possible interaction with PCV2 in PCVAD
April 26, 2016By Tanja Opriessnig
The objective of this study was to characterize a novel PPV previously designated as PPV2 in pigs and to determine the interaction of PPV2 and PCV2. Colostrum-deprived pigs experimentally infected...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of an accelerated hydrogen peroxide disinfectant and a chlorine dioxide disinfectant to inactivate porcine epidemic diarrhea virus in swine packing plant dock and unloading areas
March 11, 2016By Derald Holtkamp
Contaminated swine transport vehicles played a role in the rapid spread of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) across the United States in 2013. One potential source of contamination for...
Swine Health - PRRS
The effect of PRRSv infection on the thymus – a source of immune dysregulation?
March 7, 2016By Crystal Loving
PRRSv infection has been shown to cause an acute lymphopenia (loss of cells in the blood), lymphadenopathy (increased size of lymph nodes due to increased cell numbers) and thymic atrophy (decreased...
Swine Health - General Disease
Understanding and searching for immune protection against group C rotavirus in piglets
March 2, 2016By Kyoung-Jin Yoon
Rotavirus is not a new disease within the swine industry; however, there is an evidence of re-emergence and importance in neonates and early weaned piglets. Group C rotaviruses often cause...
