Swine Health - General Disease
Strain Variation in Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae
April 14, 2014By F. Chris Minion
The main goal of this proposal is to develop a meaningful basis by which to measure field isolate variability in Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae that can correlate to virulence and/or protection from...
Swine Health - General Disease
Detection and characterization of influenza A virus endemic circulation in neonatal and nursery pigs in a farm using routine influenza vaccination
April 8, 2014By Phil Gauger
Swine influenza virus is the cause of an acute respiratory disease affecting swine worldwide. Inactivated influenza vaccines used in breeding females provides passive immunity to neonatal...
Swine Health - General Disease
The Use of Probiotics as an Aid in the Control of Clostridium difficile Associated Disease in Neonatal Pigs
April 1, 2014By Alejandro Ramirez
In the last 10 years, Clostridium difficile has been implicated as a major cause of neonatal diarrhea in pigs. C. difficile infection (CDI) affects piglets ranging in age from 1-7 days. Clinical...
Swine Health - PRRS
Design and analysis of PRRSv surveillance: temporal and spatial sampling, mapping, monitoring and automated rapid detection of outbreak
March 6, 2014By Chong Wang
Innovation of cost effective methods for eliminating the PRRSv from individual herds has stimulated hope that the industry may someday eliminate the virus from the U.S. However, exploiting this...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Investigating potential existence of chronic, persistent foot-and-mouth disease virus infection in domestic pigs; implications for disease control strategies
February 18, 2014By Jonathan Arzt
The severe measures routinely enacted for control of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks are based upon extreme contagiousness of the disease, rapidity of spread, and fear of residual...
Swine Health - PRRS
Characterization of neutralizing antibody responses to PRRSV and association with host
February 18, 2014By Raymond R. Rowland
Virus neutralization (VN) activity following vaccination or infection with porcine reproductive respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is generally considered to be weak and primarily directed...
Swine Health - General Disease
Characterization of porcine astrovirus infection in the U.S. pig population
February 16, 2014By Tanja Opriessnig
Many astrovirus (AstV) species are associated with enteric disease. In this study, the prevalence rates of porcine AstV types 1–5 (PAstV1–PAstV5) in the U.S. pig population were...
Swine Health - PRRS
Assessment of heteroclite-vectored cytokines as a means to increase efficiency of modified live PRRSV DIVA vaccine preparations
February 3, 2014By Kay S. Faaberg
Many significant hurdles have complicated vaccine development for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV). This work utilized a naturally occurring byproduct of PRRSV replication...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of novel mucosal vaccines against swine influenza in pigs
January 6, 2014By Mahesh Khatri
Swine influenza is a highly contagious acute respiratory viral disease of swine. The causative agent swine influenza virus (SIV) has been widely prevalent in the US swineherds. Control of influenza...
Swine Health - PRRS
Multi-institutional development and validation of a multiplex fluorescent microsphere immunoassay for the diagnosis of multiple agents in serum and oral fluid
December 26, 2013By Raymond R. Rowland
The overall purpose of this project is to institute a collaboration between Kansas State University (KSU), South Dakota State University...
