Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Occurrence and Movement of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria and Resistance Genes in Tile-Drained Agricultural Fields Receiving Swine Manure Application
September 20, 2013By Michelle Soupir
The use of antibiotics by the swine industry to increase production efficiency and treat disease is thought to contribute to antibiotic resistance in the environment. When manure from hog operations...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Impact of Mitochondrially Targeted Novel Antioxidant on Pig Feed Efficiency
September 4, 2013By Don Beitz
Oxidative stress is considered a potential cause of decreased feed efficiency in animals. Therefore, incorporating antioxidants into livestock feeds may improve feed efficiency by decreasing...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Critical evaluation of a new novel bio-fuels byproduct “MycoMeal” on growth performance, body composition and intestinal health in nursery pigs
July 16, 2013By Nicholas Gabler
The thin stillage leftover from ethanol production contains biodegradable organic compounds and sufficient micronutrients that an ideal feedstock for fungal cultivation such as Rhizopus microsporus...
Swine Health - General Disease
Fluorescent in situ hybridization for the detection of novel pathogenic Brachyspira spp. in porcine colonic tissues
July 12, 2013By Eric Burrough
Swine dysentery (SD) has historically been associated with the presence of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae, a strongly beta-hemolytic spirochete; however, beginning in the latter part of 2008 and early...
Animal Science - Breeding & Genetics
Genome-Wide Association Study for Sow Feed Efficiency and Reproduction and Genomic Selection using Low Density Panels
June 17, 2013By Jack C.M. Dekkers
With the rise in feed costs, increasing nutritional efficiency of production is, more than ever, one of the main drivers of profitability of pork production. Over the past decades, substantial effort...
Swine Health - PRRS
Preweaning surveillance: Finger on the pulse of PRRSV epidemiology, transmission and spread
April 16, 2013By Jeffrey Zimmerman
We believe that achieving control of PRRSV will require the industry to develop the capacity to easily, efficiently, and continuously surveil herds for PRRSV. The objective of the research was...
Animal Science - Breeding & Genetics
The economic value of genomic selection to swine breeding herds
April 1, 2013By Kenneth J. Stalder
Many swine breeding organizations are in the early stages of the decision making or implementation process regarding incorporation of genome-enabled selection into a breeding program. However,...
Swine Health - General Disease
Effects of Exposure to Organic Dust on Macrophage Function: Implications for Swine Respiratory Health
March 21, 2013By Christopher Tuggle
Exposure to the dust in pig barns has been shown to affect short-term measures of inflammation and immune function in swine workers. Models of such exposure that used human or mouse lung immune...
Animal Science
Using objective behavioral measurements to build robust producer tools for detecting, scoring and treating lameness in sows
March 5, 2013By Anna Johnson
Lameness associated with painful joint lesions has been identified as a welfare challenge for confined sows. It has been ranked as the number 3 reason for culling sows; comprising 15% of the culls...
Swine Health - General Disease
Immune correlates of clinical outcomes in maternal antibody-positive piglets vaccinated with attenuated or killed SIV and challenged with an antigenic variant
March 1, 2013By Matthew Sandbulte
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY. Current SIV vaccines, which contain whole inactivated virus (WIV), do not provide broad cross-protection against new variants, and maternal antibodies inhibit...
