Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Development of African swine fever diagnostic assays for oral fluids
February 4, 2015By Jeffrey Zimmerman
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is of concern to pork producers because of its high mortality rate, its severe economic impact, and its rapid geographic expansion in recent years. Prevention and...
Swine Health - General Disease
A study to assess the correlation between plasma, oral fluid and urine concentrations of flunixin meglumine with the tissue residue depletion profile in finishing age swine
February 1, 2015By Hans Coetzee
The United States is the world’s leading exporter of pork. In recent years, several of these pork export destination countries have implemented more stringent monitoring protocols...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Evaluating Immunogenicity of a Novel Live-vectored Prototype ASFV Vaccine
January 30, 2015By Waithaka Mwangi
The African Swine Fever Virus is a high-consequence pathogen that causes hemorrhagic fever in pigs and some isolates are capable of killing nearly all infected pigs. The pathogen poses a high...
Swine Health - PRRS
The contribution of adaptive immunity to Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome virus infection
January 5, 2015By Melinda Wilkerson
Objectives: The purpose of our studies was to understand how adaptive immunity contributes to the susceptibility of nursery-age piglets to...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Identification of Protective Antigens of African Swine Fever Virus
January 2, 2015By Daniel Rock
African swine fever (ASF) is arguably the most significant emerging disease threat for the swine industry worldwide. Devastating ASF...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of PRRS virus-like-particles containing nanoparticle vaccine and its evaluation in pigs
December 1, 2014By Renukaradhya Gourapura
Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) is a chronic and economically important viral disease of pigs. Currently used PRRS virus (PRRSV) vaccines have failed to completely protect...
Swine Health - PRRS
Rational design of a broadly protective vaccine against porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus
November 14, 2014By Hiep Vu
Current PRRS vaccines are not adequately effective for control and eradication of PRRS. The main limitation of the current PRRS vaccines is their sub-optimal coverage against divergent PRRSV strains...
Swine Health - PRRS
Defining a Novel Structural Component of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus and its Role in Disease Pathogenesis
November 13, 2014By Kay S. Faaberg
The objective of this project was to characterize the makeup of nsp2, shown to be a new structural component of the PRRSV virion. Radiolabelled nsp2 protein, in the absence or presence of...
Swine Health - General Disease
Molecular Characterization and Protective/Diagnostic Application of the Capsular Polysaccharide of Haemophilus parasuis
November 5, 2014By Thomas Inzana
Haemophilus parasuis (Hps) is an important swine pathogen that can decimate a swine herd in less than 72 hours. Although this bacterium has devastating effects on pork producing facilities,...
Swine Health - PRRS
Impact of pig farm density on incidence of PRRS in a cohort of sow herds
October 1, 2014By Robert B. Morrison
This project was designed to measure the incidence of PRRS infection in a cohort of US sow herds. Additionally, it sought to conduct a risk assessment based on the density of swine farms around...
