Swine Health - General Disease
Assessment of the infectivity of asymptomatic carriers, to understand the dynamics of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infection in reproductive herds
October 31, 2006By Carlos Pijoan
Designing disease control and/or eradication protocols depends mostly in how much we know about the pathogen we want to eliminate. Regarding Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, the causative agent of Enzootic...
Swine Health - PRRS
Accurate ELISA test development: Evaluation of cysteine protease domain of non-structural protein 2 as a potential antigen
October 31, 2006By Ying Fang
Currently, in the absence of effective vaccines and therapeutic drugs, one of the key approaches to achieve the “National PRRS Elimination” is to identify PRRSV infected pigs, so such...
Swine Health - PRRS
An Improved Method for PRRSV Surveillance and Monitoring
October 11, 2006By Jeffrey Zimmerman
Oral fluids are inexpensive to collect. Each pen sample requires a length of cotton rope, a plastic bag, and a snap-cap plastic tube. Labor costs include the time required to place and recover the...
Swine Health - PRRS
The role of downtime in pathogen contamination of swine facilities
October 9, 2006By Dr. Sandra Amass
The effectiveness of decontamination procedures and downtimes in reducing PRRSV and bacterial contamination of wean-finish and nursery rooms of a commercial swine farm was tested. The herd was...
Swine Health - PRRS
Modeling PRRS virus aerosol transmission within and between farms
October 1, 2006By Jeffrey Zimmerman
The objective of this research was to try to understand two major stages of aerosol transmission: 1) how much PRRSV is aerosolized by pigs and 2) how long does airborne PRRSV remain infectious. How...
Swine Health - PRRS
Evaluation of sampling and testing strategies for monitoring of PRRS virus infection in boar studs
September 7, 2006By Claudia Munoz-Zanai
Monitoring of boar studs for PRRS is critical to minimize the risk of transmission to sows via contaminated semen. However, current protocols for monitoring PRRSV in boar studs are diverse, sometimes...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of Edible Vaccines against PRRSV: A Proof of Concept Study
August 30, 2006By Chenming (Mike) Zhang
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) is the most devastating swine disease. This project strives to develop new and safer vaccine for the elimination of PRRSV from swine herds....
Swine Health - PRRS
PCR-on-a-Chip for the Identification and Control of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus
August 17, 2006By Sheila Grant PhD
We have been working on the development of a micro-fluidic DNA assay with the goal to quickly identify the introduction of PRRSv in pig herds in order to eliminate the transmission and spread of the...
Swine Health - General Disease
Comparison of the virulence of PCV2 isolates from field cases with and without hallmark lesions of lymphoid depletion
August 15, 2006By Patrick Halbur
To our knowledge, this is the first report to demonstrate a clear difference in virulence between two well-characterized PCV2 isolates in a controlled experimental setting using a SPF pig model...
Swine Health - PRRS
Implementation of a PRRSV Strain Database
August 1, 2006By Kay S. Faaberg
A PRRSV ORF5 database, accessible worldwide, was created for swine producers, practitioners and researchers (http://prrsv.ahc.umn.edu/). This database was established to fulfill one objective of the...
