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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
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...
Animal Science
Characterization of porcine parvovirus type 3 (PPV3) infection in growing pigs
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
 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
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
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
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...
Animal Well-being
Effects of Mixed and Uniform Parity Groupings on Feeding Behaviour, Welfare and Productivity of Sows in ESF Housing
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...
Animal Science - Breeding & Genetics
Genome-wide association meta-analysis of experimental populations to identify QTL for pork quality and validation in commercial populations
Scientists working to better understand the underlying genetic control of pork quality traits; typically take very detailed measurements on animals in experimental herds, often called populations....
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Development of a Practical Net Energy System (productive energy) that allows for the Capture of Ingredient Cost Savings Expected from NE systems with Predictable Performance
The purpose of the current study was to determine if the NE system proposed in the NRC, 2012 can be an effective replacement for the ME...
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