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)...
Swine Health - PRRS
An Interferon-inducible Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus Isolate
October 14, 2013By Yan-Jin Zhang
The objective of this project was to determine the full length sequences of an interferon-inducible PRRSV strain A2MC2 and determine whether it can induce neutralizing antibodies. Type I interferons...
Swine Health - General Disease
Quality control assessment of blended source vitamin D supplied to feed manufacturers for use in swine diets
October 8, 2013By Darin Madson
Clinical cases of metabolic bone disease in swine, such as rickets and osteomalacia, have been linked to hypovitaminosis D. Since...
Swine Health - General Disease
Fluorescent in situ hybridization for the detection of novel pathogenic Brachyspira spp. in porcine colonic tissues
July 12, 2013By Eric Burrough
Swine dysentery (SD) has historically been associated with the presence of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae, a strongly beta-hemolytic spirochete; however, beginning in the latter part of 2008 and early...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of novel reassortant swine influenza viruses
July 1, 2013By Wenjun Ma
Since the 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus (pH1N1) was found to transmit to pigs worldwide including in the USA, subsequent reassortment events between pH1N1 and endemic swine influenza viruses (SIVs)...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Identification of genetic signatures for African swine fever virus serologic group specificity
July 1, 2013By Daniel Rock
African swine fever (ASF) is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease in domestic swine with mortality rates approaching 100%. Devastating ASF disease outbreaks and the continuing disease epidemic in...
Swine Health - General Disease
Exploiting the potential of leader proteinase coding sequence of foot-and-mouth disease virus to derive attenuated strains suitable for pathogenesis studies and development of improved countermeasures
June 2, 2013By Teresa De Los Santos
FMD is the one of the most feared viral diseases that can affect swine. Although this disease appeared to be eliminated from most developed nations by the end of last century, recent outbreaks...
