Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of envelope proteins for rapid induction of protective immune response against classical swine fever
April 16, 2013By Manuel Borca
The main objective of this research project was to determine if native and/or modified forms of Classical Swine Fever Virus (CSFV) proteins present in the surface of the virion were able to...
Swine Health - PRRS
Preweaning surveillance: Finger on the pulse of PRRSV epidemiology, transmission and spread
April 16, 2013By Jeffrey Zimmerman
We believe that achieving control of PRRSV will require the industry to develop the capacity to easily, efficiently, and continuously surveil herds for PRRSV. The objective of the research was...
Environment - Environmental Footprint
LCA of Alternate Swine Management
April 7, 2013By Greg Thoma
Life cycle analyses of eight pork production strategies for three environmental impact categories yielded a range of results, from a 17 percent increase in global warming potential (removing...
Animal Science - Breeding & Genetics
The economic value of genomic selection to swine breeding herds
April 1, 2013By Kenneth J. Stalder
Many swine breeding organizations are in the early stages of the decision making or implementation process regarding incorporation of genome-enabled selection into a breeding program. However,...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Effects of reducing the particle size of corn on the concentration of digestible and metabolizable energy and on the digestibility of energy, phosphorus, and amino acids by growing pigs
April 1, 2013By Hans H. Stein
The objective of this research was to measure the effects of different particle sizes of corn on energy and nutrient digestibility and to test the hypothesis that diets containing corn with reduced...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Does the inclusion of distillers dried grains with soluble (DDGS) in the diet of grow-finish pigs affect their susceptibility to and colonization with Salmonella enterica?
April 1, 2013By Marcos Rostagno
As an alternative to counteract the increased feed costs, dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) have been increasingly included in pig diets. Much research has been conducted recently to...
Swine Health - PRRS
PRRSV Identification by Virochip
April 1, 2013By Tracy Nicholson
Current identification and surveillance practices for PRRSV involves a few selected U.S. veterinary diagnostic laboratories performing quantitative RT-PCR and ORF5 nucleotide sequencing followed...
Swine Health - General Disease
Novel multiplex diagnostic assays development for diagnosis of porcine respiratory disease complex
March 6, 2013By Ying Fang
Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex (PRDC) is a significant economic problem for swine producers. PRDC outbreaks can cause elevated mortality, decreased feed efficiency, higher cull rates, increased...
Swine Health - General Disease
Immune correlates of clinical outcomes in maternal antibody-positive piglets vaccinated with attenuated or killed SIV and challenged with an antigenic variant
March 1, 2013By Matthew Sandbulte
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY. Current SIV vaccines, which contain whole inactivated virus (WIV), do not provide broad cross-protection against new variants, and maternal antibodies inhibit...
Animal Science - Breeding & Genetics
Genome-wide association analyses of sow reproduction and lifetime productivity
February 28, 2013By Daniel Ciobanu
Concurrent with increased prolificacy, high sow death losses and replacement rates are serious economic and welfare issues facing producers. Reproductive failure is the most frequent reason for...
