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 - Pre-Harvest
Quantitative evaluation of selective factors impacting the development, amplification, persistence and transfer of macrolide resistance elements within mixed populations of commensal and pathogenic gut bacteria.
February 28, 2007By Robin C. Anderson
A series of laboratory experiments were conducted to assess the effects of low (25 ug/ml) or high (100 ug/ml) tylosin treatment on potential development, amplification, persistance and transfer of...
Public Health - Other
Understanding health-related microbial, odor, and ammonia fate following swine lagoon wastewater application by center pivot irrigation
February 20, 2007By Jeanette Thurston-Enriquez
Microorganisms are present in animal wastewater. These microorganisms may include those important in human and animal disease. Animal wastewater may also contain ammonia and compounds that produce...
Environment - Air
Developing a Decision Support Tool to Optimize Swine Production Facility Layout to Minimize Downwind Air Quality Impacts
November 13, 2006By Thomas J. Sauer
These model experiments of air flow characteristics suggest that when swine confinement buildings are oriented so that the approaching wind is parallel to the buildings the wind is reduced less than...
Swine Health - PRRS
Implementation of a PRRSV Strain Database (Renewal)
November 7, 2006By Kay S. Faaberg
A PRRSV ORF5 database, accessible worldwide, was improved for swine producers, practitioners and researchers (http://prrsv.ahc.umn.edu/). This database, established to fulfill one objective of the...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Sequencing of 10 potential molecular epidemiological targets from a collection of food safety relevant Salmonella spp.
July 12, 2006By Scot Dowd
The development and testing of molecular epidemiological tools for pre-harvest food safety applications is an important and rapidly evolving issue. This means that it is vital to track bacterial...
Animal Well-being
The impact of routine piglet processing on well-being
March 31, 2006By Donald Lay Jr
The major finding of this research project is that any processing technique that can be carried out quickly and with minimal tissue damage is likely to be least stressful for the piglet. Alternative...
Environment - Water Usage / Conservation
Pathogenic and Indicator Bacteria in Agricultural Watersheds
March 8, 2006By Thomas Moorman
Escherichia coli and Enterococcus are indicator bacteria that were measured in Iowa streams that drain land with different levels of swine production. We completed a study monitoring=g these bacteria...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Validation of a serological assay using an 18kd oocyst-specific protein from Toxoplasma gondii for differentiation of oocyst versus tissue cyst induced human infection
October 18, 2005By Dolores Hill
The ELISA assay developed in this study is both sensitive and specific for the detection of human antibody to Toxoplasma gondii infection initiated by consumption of infectious oocysts. The assay...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Use of molecular assays to assess Toxoplasma gondii burden in commercial meat samples
March 29, 2005By Joan K. Lunney
Preventing pork associated foodborne diseases is important to pork producers. Infection with the parasite, Toxoplasma gondii (Tg), is a known risk factor associated with pork consumption. Thus assays...
