Swine Health - General Disease
Effect of tempertature and relative humidity on UV254 inactivation of airborne viral pathogens.
January 8, 2011By Jeffrey Zimmerman
The proposed study was Part Two of a 2-year project to test whether ultraviolet light could serve as a practical and cost-effective method to inactivate aerosolized pathogens in commercial swine...
Environment - Environmental Footprint
Reducing the Environmental Footprint of Pig Finishing Barns
January 5, 2011By Larry D. Jacobson
Increasing energy costs and regulatory push for lower emissions of air pollutants is a fact facing swine producers throughout the upper Midwest. The primary objective of this project was to...
Swine Health - General Disease
Dissemination of PCV2 viral particles from sow to piglets
December 16, 2010By Cheryl Dvorak
PCVAD is a disease of finishing pigs that is controlled by vaccination. It is effective in prevention...
Human Nutrition
Consumer acceptability and stability of omega-3 enriched pork products
December 6, 2010By James Hollis
In this study the degree of DHA/EPA enrichment of pig tissues that can be achieved by feeding pigs a diet supplemented by different levels of Gromega, an algal source of DHA/EPA, while still...
Animal Well-being
Evaluation and Application of Humane Hypoxia Euthanasia for Nursery Pigs
December 1, 2010By Terry Engle
Humane euthanasia of sick or injured pigs raised in a commercial production facility is necessary when veterinary medical care and economic considerations deem that the animal cannot be...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of the safety and efficacy of a second generation live chimeric PCV1-2 vaccine in the PCV2-PRRSV coinfection model
November 29, 2010By Tanja Opriessnig
The efficacy of a live chimeric porcine circovirus (PCV) type 1-2 vaccine based on subtype PCV2a was evaluated in a PCV2b and porcine...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Fate of Lysine and Phytate During the Bioprocess of Making DDGS
November 15, 2010By Yanhong Zhang
PART AThe objective of this study is to monitor the changes in lysine concentration and reactivity through the unit operations and processes that are used to make fuel ethanol. The...
Human Nutrition
Assessment of Human Exposure to Heterocyclic Amines (HCAs) from Cooked Meat Products
November 9, 2010By J. Scott Smith
Heterocyclic amines (HCAs) are cancer-causing compounds found in meat products cooked at temperatures higher than 300 °F. Several studies have shown that high intake of well-done meat and...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development and validation of molecular-based tools to differentiate attenuated Salmonella choleraesuis vaccine strains from field isolates
November 9, 2010By Simone Oliveira
The objective of this research was to develop molecular diagnostic methods for differentiating live, attenuated Salmonella Choleraesuis vaccines from virulent Salmonella-like bacteria.Samples...
Swine Health - General Disease
The influence of maternal PCV2 immune response on piglet infection rates at weaning and the effect of PCV2 infection at weaning on lifetime performance and vaccine efficacy
November 5, 2010By James Lowe
With the recent development of porcine circovirus vaccines, porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVAD) has become less of a challenge for swine producers. However, much is unknown about the...
