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...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of a Broadly Protective PRRS Vaccine
July 25, 2006By Gregory Tobin|Peter Nara
This project is designed to study a completely new approach to developing a new vaccine against PRRS for the pork industry. It is based on a new understanding of how the AIDS virus causes disease in...
Swine Health - PRRS
Analysis of prevalent winds in areas with suspicious cases of PRRSV lateral transmission between farms
July 25, 2006By Robert Morrison
This report summarizes the analysis of prevalent winds in 16 pairs of neighboring PRRS virus-infected and PRRS virus-negative pig sites. Eight pairs were selected because airborne transmission was...
Swine Health - PRRS
A novel herpes virus vector – based approach for PRRSV vaccines
July 19, 2006By Xiuqing Wang
The goal of the study was to examine the potential application of a novel herpes simplex virus-1-based vector system for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus vaccine development. The...
Swine Health - PRRS
Serum Markers of PRRSV Infection
July 14, 2006By Michael Murtaugh
Early detection of infectious disease is crucial for preventing the spread of the infectious agent. In PRRS, current diagnostic methods mainly use the antibody response of individual pigs or herd,...
Swine Health - PRRS
Direct Physical Characterization of the PRRSV Virion
July 12, 2006By Michael Murtaugh
We have established that PRRSV-infected cells produce only one form (density) of virus and that it accounts for all of the infectivity. The virion is comprised of nucleocapsid at least 5 proteins....
Swine Health - PRRS
A Field-Deployable Fluorescence-Based Sensor Excited by anOrganic Light Emitting Device for PRRSV Detection
July 6, 2006By Louisa Tabatabai
This report describes results obtained for the optimization of reagents to be used for the construction of the novel photoluminescence sensor device. PRRSV strain NADC-8 was purified and...
