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...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Phage therapy to reduce transport and lairage associated increases in Salmonella infections: evaluation of delivery methods
November 4, 2010By Paul Ebner
Bacteriophages are naturally occurring microorganisms that target and destroy bacteria. Our laboratory previously demonstrated that administering bacteriophages to pigs reduces Salmonella...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Impact of DDGS Particle Size on DM, Energy, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Digestibility in Diets for Growing Pigs
October 22, 2010By G.C. Shurson
The objectives of this study were to determine DE and ME content, and evaluate the effect of different particle sizes of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) at a 30% dietary inclusion...
Environment - Air
Development of a National Air Quality Self Assessment Tool (NAQSAT) for swine producers; project number
October 17, 2010By Wendy Powers
Funding from this project was pooled with funding received by industry groups across the U.S. and funding received from the NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant program. As a result, an online tool was...
Swine Health - General Disease
Influence of PRRSV viremia on PCV2-vaccine efficacy in conventional growing pigs with maternally derived anti-PCV2-antibodies
October 1, 2010By Tanja Opriessnig
Several porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) vaccines are now commercially available and have been shown to be effective at decreasing the occurrence of porcine circovirus associated disease...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of new risk assessments and enhancements to the web application for the Production Animal Disease Risk Assessment Program
September 30, 2010By Derald Holtkamp
The American Association of Swine Veterinarian’s (AASV) Production Animal Disease Risk Assessment Program (PADRAP) is an epidemiologically-based initiative to help producers and veterinarians...
