Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Energy and amino acid digestibility of corn distillers syrup by-products in growing pigs
May 5, 2010By G.C. Shurson
Increased market competition for corn between the livestock and poultry industry and the ethanol industry has led to record high feed prices in recent years. As a result, pork producers have...
Animal Well-being
Gestating sows’ preference for open, closed and animal-controlled stall designs
May 5, 2010By Ed Pajor
This project aimed to determine the preference of pigs for stalls as a function of stall design, home housing condition and the presence of socially dominant or subordinate group members. ...
Animal Well-being
Effects of floor space during transport and journey time on transport losses and well-being of market-weight pigs.
May 4, 2010By Michael Ellis
Transport losses represent a significant economic cost to the swine industry and are of major concern from an animal welfare perspective. Losses include pigs that die during the journey or are...
Swine Health - PRRS
Evaluation of adjuvants at the mucosal area for the development of innovative mucosal vaccine against PRRS
April 29, 2010By Renukaradhya Gourapura
Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) is a chronic and economically important viral disease of pigs. Currently available PRRS virus (PRRSV) vaccines have been administered systemically...
Swine Health - PRRS
Identifying PRRSV structural components that activate regulatory T cells and diminish protective immunity
April 26, 2010By Tanya LeRoith
This study was designed to test the hypothesis that certain structural components of PRRSV drive the activation of regulatory T cells (Tregs). Activating these T cells would thereby diminish the...
Swine Health - General Disease
PCV2 replication and disease enhancement through lymphocyte stimulation
April 19, 2010By Dr. Eileen Thacker
Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) causes a number of diseases including PMWS. The number of pigs that are infected with PCV2 that go on to clinical disease is extremely variable. The exact mechanism...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Expansion of the Salmonella in Pork Risk Assessment: Incorporation of Toxoplasma in pork, and assessing the relationship between on-farm factors and risk.
April 8, 2010By Greg Paoli
We extended our previous farm-to-illness model (NPB project number 07-079) to incorporate the risk of human toxoplasmosis as well as salmonellosis, from the consumption of both fresh intact pork...
Swine Health - General Disease
Comparison of the level of protection and long-term duration of immunity induced by different commercial PCV2 vaccines and an experimental PCV1-2 live vaccine in conventional pigs
April 7, 2010By Tanja Opriessnig
The efficacy of commercial porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) vaccines and a live PCV1-2a chimeric vaccine were compared in conventional PCV2 positive piglets using a PCV2-PRRSV-PPV coinfection model....
Swine Health - General Disease
Understanding the Immunopathogenesis of Porcine Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome: the Immunological Effects of PCV2 and PRRSV Co-infection
April 1, 2010By Tanya LeRoith
This study addressed an important question about the immunological interactions between PCV2 and PRRSV. Although PCV2 has been recognized as the major contributor to PCVAD, it is difficult to...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of pathogenesis of concurrent SIV and PCV2 infection in CD/CD pigs
March 31, 2010By Stephen Lenz
The objectives of the project were to determine if 1) SIV infection (H1N1, not pandemic H1N1) could initiate...
