Swine Health - General Disease
Expanding the immune toolkit for assessing pig health and improving swine disease and vaccine studies
May 8, 2007By Joan K. Lunney
Swine disease and vaccine research will be advanced by the development of sophisticated tools to measure swine antibodies or immunoglobulins (Igs). Swine produce antibodies, or Igs, in response to...
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Prevalence and Levels of Salmonella spp. on Retail Pork Cuts
May 4, 2007By Wendy Warren-Serna
Study Approach: A total of 4,000 retail pork products were examined during January – March, 2007, from 4 locations in the Midwestern and Southwestern United States, including Green Bay, WI,...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Development of a Microarray for the Rapid and Simultaneous Detection and Tracking of Bacterial and Viral Foodborne Pathogens
May 3, 2007By Wondwossen Gebreyes
We developed a microarray for the rapid detection and characterization of three important bacterial pathogens including Campylobacter, Salmonella and Yersinia and a viral pathogen including...
Environment - Other
Estimation of the mass balance of nutrients for specific production phases and the flow of nutrients through a swine farm
April 16, 2007By Scott Carter
Results from these experiments suggest that dietary manipulation can have dramatic effects on the mass balance of nutrients during the finishing phase. Altering the dietary crude protein and...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of cost-efficient herd testing protocols based on testing of pooled samples using ELISA
April 2, 2007By Claudia Munoz-Zanai
The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of using pooled serum samples for detection of PRRSV-infected sow herds by ELISA. In order to achieve this objective, 113 true positive...
Evaluation of Boric Acid and Sodium Tetraborate to Reduce Ammonia and Hydrogen Sulfide Emissions from Swine Facilities
April 1, 2007
Borates have long been used in a number of commercial products for cleaning and controlling odors. However, they have not been examined for controlling hazardous gas emissions from stored livestock...
Swine Health - PRRS
Evaluation of a novel anti-idiotype vaccine against PRRSV infection
March 27, 2007By Jeffrey Zimmerman
The primary objective of this project was to test a PRRS vaccine based on a PRRSV anti-idiotypic antibody. Subsequent to the primary objective, the intent was to determine whether effective vaccines...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Use of naturally-occurring bacteriophage to reduce Salmonella in swine prior to harvest
March 27, 2007By Todd Callaway
Salmonella is one of the most common causes of foodborne illness in humans and can also impact swine production efficiency. Bacteriophage are viruses found in nature that can kill bacteria,...
Swine Health - PRRS
Physical Characterization of the PRRSV Virion
March 23, 2007By Michael Murtaugh
The research here shows that PRRSV grows in cells as a population of viruses with the same shape, the same RNA molecules, and the same protein composition. There was no evidence for multiple forms...
Swine Health - PRRS
Mechanisms of Failed Protection Against PRRS in Sow Herds
February 28, 2007By Michael Murtaugh
We have established a set of standard protocols and reagents for whole genome PRRSV sequencing and assembly. Phylogenetic comparisons amongst 10 pairs of homologous strains confirmed several regions...
