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....
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Serological Analysis of Toxoplasma gondii, Trichinella spiralis and Salmonella enterica among niche market antimicrobial-free and conventionally reared pigs
August 25, 2006By Wondwossen Gebreyes
Three globally important zoonotic foodborne pathogens including Salmonella, Trichinella and Toxoplasma, were studied. Serological analysis of these pathogens was conducted on samples collected from...
Animal Well-being
Evaluation of sows at harvest to determine the incidence of abnormalities that could lead to culling of breeding herd females
August 22, 2006By Ken Stalder
Poor sow longevity in commercial pork production systems can lead to economic inefficiency and animal welfare concerns (Stalder et al., 2004). In the United States, reported annual breeding female...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Determination of the Diagnostic Sensitivity and Specificity of a Reference Method for Salmonella sp. Detection in Swine Fecal Samples of Known Infection Status
August 18, 2006By Brenda Love
Salmonella enterica is a bacterium that causes disease in many animals, including swine and human beings. This organism can be transmitted from swine to human beings through direct contact, or...
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...
Animal Science
Development of Condition Scoring Guide – using live animals
August 6, 2006By Locke Karriker
The objectives of the study were to develop educational materials to assist pork producers and animal caretakers in the evaluation of sow body condition, to estimate the amount of feed and...
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...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Critical Review of Functional Animal Proteins
July 26, 2006By James Pettigrew
Spray-dried plasma and immune egg products provide dramatic benefits when added to diets of young weaned pigs. Spray-dried plasma increases growth rate and resistance to enteric infection, while...
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...
