Animal Science
North American Swine Energy System, 2nd Year
September 30, 2008By James Pettigrew
Energy is the most expensive dietary essential in pig diets, but it receives much less attention in North America than is deserved by its importance. The digestible energy (DE) and metabolizable...
Swine Health - PRRS
B Cell Repertoire Diversification and Class Switch in PRRS
September 26, 2008By John Butler
Successful PRRSV vaccines and vaccination strategies are best employed when the host’s immune response to the pathogen is understood. Since it was generally known that PRRSV caused non-virus...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Identifying genes associated with Salmonella shedding to increase pork safety through improved genetic resistance
August 1, 2008By Christopher Tuggle
The long-term goals of this project are to use genomics tools to identify genetic variants associated with decreased Salmonella shedding on farms; and to use these variants to select for animals that...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Employing phage therapy to reduce lairage associated increases in Salmonella infections and shedding
July 23, 2008By Paul Ebner
Contamination of meat and meat products with foodborne pathogens is usually the result of the carcass coming in contact with the feces of an infected animal during processing. In the case of...
Animal Well-being
Effectiveness of a non-penetrating captive bolt for on-farm euthanasia of low viability piglets
July 18, 2008By Tina Widowski
Swine producers must inevitably deal with on-farm euthanasia of low viability and compromised piglets. Compromised piglets are of low economic value and may be underweight, weak, malformed, emaciated...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of a live attenuated vaccine against swine influenza by reverse genetics
July 17, 2008By Yan Zhou
Influenza A virus causes significant morbidity in swine, resulting in a substantial economic burden. Vaccination is the primary method for the prevention of influenza disease. Live virus vaccines...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Survival of North American Genotypes of Trichinella in Frozen Pork
July 16, 2008By Dolores Hill
We have examined the North American genotypes of Trichinella (T. spiralis (T-1), T. nativa (T-2), T. pseudospiralis (T-4), T. murrelli (T-5), and...
Swine Health - General Disease
Identification of a putative viral co-factor different from PCV2, in animals with PMWS.
July 11, 2008By Israrul Ansari
During the last two years, the availability of effective vaccines against PCV2 and their extensive successful use under field conditions to control PMWS have allowed to convincingly demonstrate that...
Animal Science
Development of an Allergenicity Model in Swine
July 11, 2008By Tracy Barfield
Allergens affect pigs by contributing to increased morbidity and decreased efficiencies of gain. The allergens found in feed ingredients, like soy that show allergenic response can be isolated and...
Swine Health - General Disease
Genome sequencing of Haemophilus parasuis for improved swine health
July 8, 2008By Gregory Phillips
Although H. parasuis remains a concern to producers in the United States, it remains a challenging microorganism to study and thus control. For example, since H. parasuis is...
