Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Effect of lysozyme or antibiotics in ameliorating the effects of an indirect diseases challenge
February 3, 2014By william oliver
Subtherapeutic levels of antibiotics are used in swine feed as growth promotants, to improve feed efficiency, and to reduce the susceptibility to bacterial infections. As a result, the use of...
Swine Health - PRRS
Assessment of heteroclite-vectored cytokines as a means to increase efficiency of modified live PRRSV DIVA vaccine preparations
February 3, 2014By Kay S. Faaberg
Many significant hurdles have complicated vaccine development for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV). This work utilized a naturally occurring byproduct of PRRSV replication...
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Dietary effects on sow productivity to three parities
December 15, 2013By Dr. Clay A. Lents Ph.D.
Pork Safety
Depletion of penicillin G residues in sows after intramuscular injection
August 13, 2013By David Newman|David Smith|Sara Lupton|Weilin Shelver
A total of 126 heavy sows were treated with a 5x dose of penicillin G procaine via intramuscular (IM) administration for 3 consecutive days using 3 injection patterns. Sets of 18 animals (6 per...
Swine Health - General Disease
Exploiting the potential of leader proteinase coding sequence of foot-and-mouth disease virus to derive attenuated strains suitable for pathogenesis studies and development of improved countermeasures
June 2, 2013By Teresa De Los Santos
FMD is the one of the most feared viral diseases that can affect swine. Although this disease appeared to be eliminated from most developed nations by the end of last century, recent outbreaks...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of envelope proteins for rapid induction of protective immune response against classical swine fever
April 16, 2013By Manuel Borca
The main objective of this research project was to determine if native and/or modified forms of Classical Swine Fever Virus (CSFV) proteins present in the surface of the virion were able to...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Does the inclusion of distillers dried grains with soluble (DDGS) in the diet of grow-finish pigs affect their susceptibility to and colonization with Salmonella enterica?
April 1, 2013By Marcos Rostagno
As an alternative to counteract the increased feed costs, dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) have been increasingly included in pig diets. Much research has been conducted recently to...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluation of lipid source and peroxidation level on digestible and metabolizable energy concentration, and the impact of lipid peroxidation on intestinal barrier function
August 9, 2012By Brian Kerr
BACKGROUND: A better understanding of methods to assess quality and feeding value of feed fats and oils is needed because of variability in composition and quality. Commonly used lipid...
Swine Health - General Disease
Rational design of attenuated foot-and-mouth disease virus strains for development of improved disease countermeasures
June 14, 2012By Teresa De Los Santos
FMD is the one of the most feared viral disease that can affect livestock, including swine. Although this disease appeared to be eliminated...
Animal Well-being
Innovative scientific techniques to evaluate alternatives to the use of carbon dioxide euthanasia procedures
June 1, 2012By Donald Lay Jr
The identification and validation of a humane method to euthanize piglets is critical to address the public’s concern that current...
