Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
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Swine Health - PRRS
Impact of host immunity and genetics on persistence of PRRS virus in tonsils
Despite extensive efforts to eliminate PRRS from US production facilities, it remains a key disease issue and poses a continued economic threat to the industry, particularly in pig dense areas.
Animal Science - Breeding & Genetics
PRRS host genetics consortium (PHGC): a proposal to continue consortium work to study the role of host genetics and resistance to PRRSV
Despite extensive efforts to eliminate PRRS from US production facilities, it remains a key disease issue and poses a continued economic...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
National Animal Health Monitoring Survey for Toxoplasma gondii and Trichinella spiralis
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) initiated the National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) in 1983 to collect, analyze, and disseminate data on animal health, management, and...
Swine Health - PRRS
Comparison of early immune responses of pigs which are genetically PRRS resistant/tolerant using a swine-specific immune protein (cytokine) multiplex assay
PRRS causes major economic losses to the US pig industry, as reflected in debilitating respiratory syndromes, major reproductive losses and unthrifty piglets; economic losses were calculated to...
Public Health - Other Zoonotic Diseases
Serological Surveillance of Wild Boars for Trichinella spiralis
Trichinella spiralis and Toxoplasma gondii are important zoonotic parasites, occurring in warm blooded animals and humans worldwide. Among domesticated food animals, domestic pigs and wild carnivores...
Swine Health - General Disease
Expanding the immune toolkit for assessing pig health and improving swine disease and vaccine studies NPB project
Keeping pigs healthy and productive is a major goal for producers and researchers. Preventing disease, using biosecurity and planned vaccinations, are hallmarks of well-managed swine facilities....
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Survival of North American Genotypes of Trichinella in Frozen Pork
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
Expanding the immune toolkit for assessing pig health and improving swine disease and vaccine studies
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
Validation of a serological assay using an 18kd oocyst-specific protein from Toxoplasma gondii for differentiation of oocyst versus tissue cyst induced human infection
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...
