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...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of standard methods to compare surveillance between regional porcine reproductive and respiratory virus control projects
December 5, 2013By Derald Holtkamp
The North American Swine industry is engaged in a conversation on a national porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) strategy. The parties involved in the conversation...
Swine Health - General Disease
Characterization of the genetic diversity of Mycoplasma hyorhinis field isolates by multiple locus variable number of tandem repeats analysis (MLVA) and multi-locus sequence typing (MLST)
November 26, 2013By Alberto Rovira
Mycoplasma hyorhinis is an important pathogenic organism that inhabits de nasal cavity of swine. This bacterium has been associated with a variety of diseases in pigs, where polyserositis and...
Swine Health - General Disease
Early detection of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infections in live pigs: Comparison of current methods and development of new assays
November 5, 2013By Maria Pieters
Detection of M. hyopneumoniae infections in live pigs is difficult for the producer, the field veterinarian and the diagnostician. This study was designed and performed with the objective to compare...
Swine Health - General Disease
Generating swine influenza virus (SIV) oral fluid diagnostic Reference Standards for community use
November 4, 2013By Jeffrey Zimmerman
Influenza A virus is an important component of the porcine respiratory disease complex (Thacker et al., 2001) and a pathogen with a major economic impact on swine production. Holtkamp (2007a,b)...
