Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Improving production efficiency and carcass weight of finishing pigs housed under heat stress conditions by heat abatement with dietary betaine
February 24, 2014By Eric Van Heugten
Heat stress has serious negative consequences for the swine industry by reducing feed intake and growth performance in pigs. Based on commercial observations, we estimate that heat stress during the...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Investigating potential existence of chronic, persistent foot-and-mouth disease virus infection in domestic pigs; implications for disease control strategies
February 18, 2014By Jonathan Arzt
The severe measures routinely enacted for control of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks are based upon extreme contagiousness of the disease, rapidity of spread, and fear of residual...
Swine Health - PRRS
Characterization of neutralizing antibody responses to PRRSV and association with host
February 18, 2014By Raymond R. Rowland
Virus neutralization (VN) activity following vaccination or infection with porcine reproductive respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is generally considered to be weak and primarily directed...
Animal Science
Characterization of porcine parvovirus type 3 (PPV3) infection in growing pigs
February 17, 2014By Patrick G. Halbur DVM
In recent years increasing usage of molecular biology tools has resulted in identification of a variety of previously unknown virus species. Porcine parvovirus type 3 (PPV3) is considered an emerging...
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Factors driving the emergence and persistence of multidrug resistance-encoding plasmids in the swine environment
February 16, 2014By Timothy Johnson
This study examined the impact of subtherapeutic and therapautic levels of chlortetracycline in feed on the selection and dissemination...
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Review of Literature and Needs Assessment for Use of Pathogen Reduction Technologies (PRTS) In Fresh Pork
February 7, 2014By Dale Woerner
The United States is the world’s third-largest pork producer and the largest pork exporter. In 2012, U.S. pork production was about 10.4 million metric tonnes (MT), over 2.3 million MT of which...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Effect of lysozyme or antibiotics in ameliorating the effects of an indirect diseases challenge
February 3, 2014By william oliver
Subtherapeutic levels of antibiotics are used in swine feed as growth promotants, to improve feed efficiency, and to reduce the susceptibility to bacterial infections. As a result, the use of...
Swine Health - PRRS
Assessment of heteroclite-vectored cytokines as a means to increase efficiency of modified live PRRSV DIVA vaccine preparations
February 3, 2014By Kay S. Faaberg
Many significant hurdles have complicated vaccine development for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV). This work utilized a naturally occurring byproduct of PRRSV replication...
Environment - Environmental Footprint
Integrated GHG Emissions and Tradeoff Cost Model for Swine Barn Operations
January 31, 2014By Richard K. Ulrich
Animal Well-being
Effects of Mixed and Uniform Parity Groupings on Feeding Behaviour, Welfare and Productivity of Sows in ESF Housing
January 29, 2014By Jennifer Brown
Electronic sow feeder (ESF) systems are a practical method for managing sows in group housing, as they provide an automated system for controlling individual feed intake. However, increased...
