Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Pork Checkoff Research
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Swine Health - PRRS
Monitoring and updating the value of productivity losses due to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus
Animal Well-being
A study to develop and validate assays to measure and compare four circulating neuropeptides as objective pain biomarkers in piglets
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Impact of dietary fiber on nutrient utilization by the pig and on the efficacy of the phytase enzyme
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Negative cohort study plan for the estimation of diagnostic specificity of Two PCR assays for the detection of Classical Swine Fever, African Swine Fever and Foot and Mouth disease viruses in oral fluid samples
Animal Well-being
Building a handling course to document sow locomotion when sows are afflicted with different naturally occurring lameness
Sow lameness is a major production disease affecting welfare and profitability. In 2014, Karriker and colleagues created a comprehensive swine lameness diagnostic manual which incorporated several diagnostic tools and pre- and post-mortem assessments.
Swine Health - General Disease
Development and Validation of Novel Diagnostic Assays and Investigation of Disease Pathogenesis for Infectious Arthritis in Growing Pigs
Formerly a "fringe" issue, lameness in swine production has become a priority in the face of recent veterinary and producer-driven lameness investigations showing that losses attributable to lameness...
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Investigation of pathogenicity, competitive fitness, and novel methods for rapid diagnosis of Salmonella I 4,[5],12:i:- in swine
Since the mid-1990's, Salmonella Typhimurium has been the predominant serotype of Salmonella enterica identified in diagnostic samples as a significant cause of clinical disease in swine. However,...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Improving the economic efficiency of fat utilization in pig diets by better quantifying the energy value of fat sources based on their chemical composition
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
