Human Nutrition
A National Survey of the Nitrite/Nitrate Concentrations in Cured Meat Products and Non-meat Foods Available at Retail
August 4, 2009By Jimmy Keeton
Nitrite, and in some cases nitrate, are functional food ingredients that serve as effective antimicrobials to inhibit pathogens such as Clostridium botulinum and Listeria monocytogenes, impart a...
Swine Health - PRRS
Identification of Type I Interferon Antagonists of PRRSV Viral Structural Proteins
August 3, 2009By Kay S. Faaberg
PRRSV is an important swine pathogen and infections caused by this virus have not been efficiently controlled. This is in part due to the lack of knowledge about the insufficient swine immune...
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Validation of Sanitation Procedures to Prevent the Cross Contact with Allergens during the Processing of Pork Products
August 2, 2009By Margaret Hardin
Allergens continue to be a challenge to the food industry from a public health standpoint as well as from a regulatory perspective. Several options exist to separate allergen-containing and...
Swine Health - PRRS
Understanding the role of the regulatory immune response in porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus persistence
July 30, 2009By Tanya LeRoith
This study addressed an important question in the mechanism of persistence and immune suppression by PRRSV. PRRSV persistence currently is a major problem in the field. However, the mechanism by...
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Impact of organic acids and Quaternary Ammonium Compounds on Salmonella serovars with SGI1- mediated multi-antibiotic resistance
July 29, 2009By Mark A. Harrison
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Salmonella has been implicated in several infections and outbreaks worldwide; they have been linked to the consumption of contaminated products involving pork as well....
Swine Health - General Disease
Is humoral immunity defective in PCV-2 infected piglets?
July 29, 2009By John Butler
Porcine multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) emerged in the mid and late 1990s in herds infected with porcine circovirus type-2 (PCV-2). A growing database of field observations and experimental...
Public Health - Other Zoonotic Diseases
Epidemiology, Toxino- and Geno-typing of Clostridium difficile in swine at farm, slaughter and retail
July 22, 2009By Wondwossen Gebreyes
We investigated the role of pigs in carrying important strains of C. difficile and the main goal was to determine the prevalence and compare strains of human and porcine origin. Samples were...
Swine Health - General Disease
Transmission of PCV2: Comparison of shedding patterns between PCV2a and PCV2b, evaluation of routes of transmission (fecal, oral, nasal, mechanical) and understanding the roles of spray-dried plasma and transport vehicles
July 22, 2009By Tanja Opriessnig
Temporal evidence correlated the emergence of PCV2b in the U.S. in 2005 with more frequent and severe porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVAD) cases. Information on the quantity and duration of...
Swine Health - General Disease
Role of Cachectic Cytokines in PMWS
July 17, 2009By Carlos Pijoan|Thomas W. Molitor
An opportunity was presented whereas sequential samples were collected in the midst of a natural outbreak of PMWS. This provided the basis to evaluate immunological and virological events in the...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
White Paper on Human Illness Caused by Salmonella from all Food and Non-food Vectors
July 8, 2009By Charles Kaspar
Salmonellosis continues to be an important foodborne disease in the U.S. and worldwide. Even though illness caused by salmonellae is usually not very severe, there are such a large number of cases...
