Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Improving the economic efficiency of fat utilization in pig diets by better quantifying the energy value of fat sources based on their chemical composition
February 21, 2018By Dr. John Patience Ph.D.
Swine Health - PRRS
United States Swine Pathogen Database
February 20, 2018By Dr. Kay S. Faaberg Ph.D.
Veterinarians have long needed a centralized database to compare and contrast the pathogen nucleotide sequences of their clinical samples to those seen concurrently in the field throughout the United States.
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Development and Evaluation of a Standardized Protocol for Utilization of Swine Oral fluids for PCR detection of High Consequence Pathogens: FMD, CSF, and ASF
February 14, 2018By Dr. Jesse Trujillo
The primary objective of this project was to develop a standard operating procedure for the use of swine oral fluids (SOF) as a diagnostic specimen for detection of endemic viral diseases such as...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Rapid detection and epidemiological surveillance of African Swine Fever using oral fluid
February 9, 2018By Dr. Juergen Richt Ph.D.
Public Health - MRSA
Investigation and Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteriophages that Inhabit Swine Production Environments
January 12, 2018By Dr. Jason Gill
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Determining the optimal dietary lysine:energy ratios for health challenged grow-finish pigs
January 9, 2018By Dr. Nicholas Gabler Ph.D.
Animal Well-being
National survey of Salmonella prevalence in lymph nodes of sows and market hogs
January 3, 2018By Ashley N. Arnold
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Development and Validation of a Standardized Scientific Protocol Evaluating Antibiotic Alternatives in Growing Pigs
January 3, 2018By Dr. Nicholas Gabler Ph.D.
Heightened interest in reducing antibiotic usage in pork production leaves producers looking for effective alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) in swine diets. While there are a...
Animal Science
Modeling Conductive Heat Transfer Through and Around Grow-Finish Pigs
December 31, 2017By Dr. Erin Cortus
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Development and validaton of Singleplex and Multiplex Luminex Assays for Detection of antibodies to foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), swine vesicular disease (SVD), classical swine fever (CSF) and African swine fever (ASF) viruses in porcine oral fluids
December 12, 2017By Dr. Charles Nfon PhD