Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluation of dietary soybean meal replacement on grow-finisher pig performance when challenged with PRRS and Mycoplasma
December 8, 2016By Nicholas Gabler
The amino acids requirements of growing-finishing pigs are met by utilizing a variety of protein rich ingredients, including soybean meal (SBM) and distillers dried grains with solubles, as well as...
Swine Health - General Disease
Generation of specimens of precisely known coronavirus infection status for the development and validation of highly-specific porcine coronavirus antibody assays.
December 8, 2016By Luis Gimenez-Lirola
• In the field, pigs are exposed to different coronaviruses that are known to share genetic and antigenic traits that may contribute to false-positive results. Recent evidence suggesting...
Swine Health - General Disease
Determination of the importance of porcine parvovirus type 2 (PPV2) in porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVAD) outbreaks by elimination of PPV2 through vaccination at weaning
December 2, 2016By Tanja Opriessnig
Despite widespread porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) vaccination in the growing pig population, occurrence of porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVAD) can be observed particularly in larger...
Swine Health - General Disease
Pilot study to develop ante-mortem synovial fluid and synovium sample collection techniques in growing swine and to refine a Mycoplasma hyosynoviae (MHS) arthritis case definition (453-23-79)
November 30, 2016By Locke Karriker|Paisley Canning
Infectious lameness in growing pigs is an emerging problem in the United States. Lameness is an animal welfare concern and increases production costs. Mycoplasma hyosynoviae is considered to be the...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Maximizing the utilization of lower energy, higher fiber feedstuffs through more focused and effective use of xylanase
September 30, 2016By John Patience
This project speaks directly to the objective of the National Pork Board to “enhance nutrient extraction from low energy feedstuffs including but not limited to the effect of dietary...
Swine Health - General Disease
Ex-vivo bioassay method to assess viral infectivity in feeds and non-traditional sample matrices
June 27, 2016By Kyoung-Jin Yoon
Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), caused by a coronavirus (PEDV), is a newly emerged enteric disease of swine, which was confirmed in the United States for the first time in April 2013. Since then,...
Public Health - MRSA
Prevalence of zinc resistance encoded by the czrC gene in US swine-associated MRSA ST5 strains
June 23, 2016By Rodger Main
Livestock associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) draws concern from the public health community because in some...
Swine Health - General Disease
Neuropathogenesis of a brain-derived Porcine teschovirus type 11 strain or a brain-derived Porcine sapelovirus strain in 3-week-old CDCD pigs
June 2, 2016By Gregory W. Stevenson
Swine Health - General Disease
Determination of the virulence of an emerging porcine parvovirus (PPV2) and its possible interaction with PCV2 in PCVAD
April 26, 2016By Tanja Opriessnig
The objective of this study was to characterize a novel PPV previously designated as PPV2 in pigs and to determine the interaction of PPV2 and PCV2. Colostrum-deprived pigs experimentally infected...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of an accelerated hydrogen peroxide disinfectant and a chlorine dioxide disinfectant to inactivate porcine epidemic diarrhea virus in swine packing plant dock and unloading areas
March 11, 2016By Derald Holtkamp
Contaminated swine transport vehicles played a role in the rapid spread of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) across the United States in 2013. One potential source of contamination for...
