Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Evaluating Immunogenicity of a Novel Live-vectored Prototype ASFV Vaccine
January 30, 2015By Waithaka Mwangi
The African Swine Fever Virus is a high-consequence pathogen that causes hemorrhagic fever in pigs and some isolates are capable of killing nearly all infected pigs. The pathogen poses a high...
Animal Well-being
Systematic Literature Review and Needs Assessment of Housing Systems for Lactating sows and Their Litters
January 29, 2015By Thomas Parsons
The farrowing crate is one of several common animal husbandry practices facing increased public scrutiny across the globe. Like a gestation stall, similar welfare concerns are expressed about...
Development of reagents and serological assays for porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV)
January 29, 2015By Eric A. Nelson
A novel porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) was reported in China in 2012 and identified in the U.S. in early 2014. Since then, PDCoV has been identified in a number of U.S. states and linked with...
Determining the impact of conditioning time and temperature in pelleted diets on porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) survivability in complete swine diets
January 27, 2015By Jason Woodworth
Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv) has profoundly affected the U.S. swine industry since it emerged May 2013. Since late January 2014, it has been suspected that PEDv outbreaks have been...
Development of pseudotyped reporter viruses for detection and characterization of neutralizing antibody response to PEDV and Deltacoronavirus
January 23, 2015By Susan Carpenter
The overall objective of this research was to generate biological reagents for detection and characterization of neutralizing antibody to PEDV and Porcine Deltacoronavirus. (PDCoV). The specific goal...
Risk assessment of feed ingredients of porcine origin as vehicles for transmission of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV)
January 16, 2015By Peter Davies
Risk assessment is a set of formal methods used to try to quantify risk associated with a defined activity. Generally it involves integrating all the information that can be found on the...
Animal Science
The effects of increasing niacin supplementation on growth performance, and pork quality of finishing pigs raised in seasonal heat stress
January 6, 2015By Joel DeRouchey
The overall hypothesis was that increasing the supplementation of niacin to finishing pigs during periods of heat stress can increase skin vasodilation which will improve heat abatement and...
Swine Health - PRRS
The contribution of adaptive immunity to Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome virus infection
January 5, 2015By Melinda Wilkerson
Objectives: The purpose of our studies was to understand how adaptive immunity contributes to the susceptibility of nursery-age piglets to...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Identification of Protective Antigens of African Swine Fever Virus
January 2, 2015By Daniel Rock
African swine fever (ASF) is arguably the most significant emerging disease threat for the swine industry worldwide. Devastating ASF...
Interventions to control PEDv (porcine epidemic diarrhea virus) in feed and feed ingredients
December 31, 2014By Sagar M. Goyal
We studied the effect of low heat (600C, 700C, 800C, and 900C); high heat (1200C, 1300C, 1400C, and 1450C); irradiation; and the addition of drying agents/acidifiers on the killing of PEDV in swine...
