Swine Health - PRRS
PRRSV Identification by Virochip
April 1, 2013By Tracy Nicholson
Current identification and surveillance practices for PRRSV involves a few selected U.S. veterinary diagnostic laboratories performing quantitative RT-PCR and ORF5 nucleotide sequencing followed...
Swine Health - General Disease
Effects of Exposure to Organic Dust on Macrophage Function: Implications for Swine Respiratory Health
March 21, 2013By Christopher Tuggle
Exposure to the dust in pig barns has been shown to affect short-term measures of inflammation and immune function in swine workers. Models of such exposure that used human or mouse lung immune...
Swine Health - General Disease
Novel multiplex diagnostic assays development for diagnosis of porcine respiratory disease complex
March 6, 2013By Ying Fang
Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex (PRDC) is a significant economic problem for swine producers. PRDC outbreaks can cause elevated mortality, decreased feed efficiency, higher cull rates, increased...
Swine Health - General Disease
Immune correlates of clinical outcomes in maternal antibody-positive piglets vaccinated with attenuated or killed SIV and challenged with an antigenic variant
March 1, 2013By Matthew Sandbulte
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY. Current SIV vaccines, which contain whole inactivated virus (WIV), do not provide broad cross-protection against new variants, and maternal antibodies inhibit...
Swine Health - PRRS
Year 3 funding support for the PRRS Host Genetics Consortium: A proposal to study the role of host genetics and resistance to PRRSV
February 25, 2013By Joan K. Lunney|Raymond R. Rowland
The PRRS Host Genetics Consortium (PHGC) represents the first-of-its-kind approach to food animal infectious disease research. The NPB, PRRS CAP, USDA ARS, NIFA, Genome Canada, private companies, and...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of classical swine fever virus diagnostic assays for porcine oral fluid samples
February 14, 2013By Roongroje Thanawongnuwech
With classical swine fever virus (CSFV) commonplace in the world and barely outside the borders of North America, it is reasonable to expect that CSFV will eventually be reintroduced into North...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of fluorescent recombinant antibodies to detect African swine fever virus in tissue samples and infected cells
February 13, 2013By Jose Escribano
The present project pretends to develop new reagents to solve an important gap in the African swine fever virus (ASFV) diagnosis. This virus is nowadays a real threat for Europe and,...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of an Improved Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae-Specific ELISA
February 7, 2013By F. Chris Minion
Improvement of serological-based diagnostics for Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infections in swine will require identification of mycoplasma-specific antigens and their use in an ELISA-based assay format...
Swine Health - General Disease
Comparative analysis: The pathogenesis of disease induced in piglets by group A, B and C rotaviruses, singularly or concurrently
January 1, 2013By Darin Madson
Rotavirus is not a new pathogen; however, there is evidence of re-emergence as noted by the increased diagnoses at multiple diagnostic laboratories. New testing modalities (PCR) have been...
Swine Health - General Disease
Comparison of PCR and serological assays for reliable, early and fast detection of PRRSV in boar studs
December 16, 2012By Tanja Opriessnig
The high economic impact of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) dictates the need for rapid and accurate diagnosis. The high mutation rate, rapid evolution and genetic...
