Swine Health - PRRS
Development of a Killed Subunit PRRS Vaccine
February 7, 2006By D.L. Hank Harris
The focus of our research funded by the National Pork Board was to develop second generation killed PRRS vaccines. The portion of the PRRS virus responsible for stimulating the neutralizing immune...
Swine Health - PRRS
Construction of Dynamic Aerosol Toroid Chambers
January 18, 2006By Jeffrey Zimmerman
PRRSV costs the US swine industry 560 million dollars each year in lost productivity. We can now successfully eliminate PRRSV from individual farms, but we cannot keep herds from becoming...
Swine Health - PRRS
A pilot project to determine the feasibility of controlling PRRS within a selected region
January 12, 2006By Robert Morrison
The purpose of this project was to determine if pork producers within a defined region were willing to test their herds for PRRS virus, share the results with other cooperating producers, and share...
Swine Health - PRRS
Assesment Of Vertical Transmission From Parity One Sows Infected With A Low Dose And Mild Pathogenic Prrsv Isolate
December 1, 2005By Robert Morrison
In order to generate a protocol to sample lactating piglets to evaluate PRRSV chronically infected herds twelve PRRSV naïve pregnant sows were individually housed and assigned to three different...
Swine Health - General Disease
Attempt to transmit swine hepatitis E virus (HEV) by consumption of fresh and frozen pork loin or liver
November 1, 2005By Patrick Halbur
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infects pigs but does not cause clinical disease in pigs. There is concern that hepatitis E virus from pigs may infect people and that pigs may be an important reservoir for...
Swine Health - PRRS
Rational Design of a New Generation of PRRSV Differential (Marker) Vaccines
October 21, 2005By Fernando Osorio
We started this project with the conviction that the use of vaccines will always be a cost-efficient method and the preferred approach to control PRRSV infections , provided the efficacy and safety...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of live vaccine strains of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae
October 7, 2005By Susan West
Even though improved husbandry has reduced the level of porcine pleuropneumonia caused by Apl, this disease is still a significant problem for the swine industry. Current vaccines do not adequately...
Swine Health - General Disease
Peptide ELISA for serodiagnosis of PRRSV
September 30, 2005By Peter Plagemann
I have developed a new type ELISA using synthetic peptides as antigen for the detection of antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV). This...
Swine Health - General Disease
Comparison of Serological Assays in Diagnosing Differing Serotypes of Swine Influenza Virus
August 29, 2005By Eileen Thacker
Respiratory disease caused by swine influenza virus (SIV) has become a serious health and economic problem to the U.S. swine industry. Prior to 1998, SIV in the U.S. swine population consisted of...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of a Vaccine for F18+ Enterotoxigenic E. coli in Weaned Pigs
August 22, 2005By David Francis
In this investigation we attempted to establish that a topical vaccine delivery strategy pioneered in mice could be applied to intestinal tract infections of pigs, such as enterotoxigenic E. coli. ...
