Environment - Manure Storage / Application
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Swine Health - PRRS
Mechanism of Antibody-Mediated Neutralization of PRRSV
One of the challenges in developing effective vaccines for PRRSV is the limited understanding of how neutralizing antibody inhibits PRRSV replication, and how variation in PRRSV leads to escape from...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of novel reovirus-based mucosal vaccine vectors for PEDV antigen production
The goals of this project were to identify methods for the high-level expression of the PEDV S protein receptor-binding domain (RBD) from within the genome of the clinically benign virus, Mammalian...
Assessing PEDV infectivity of samples collected from a PEDV contaminated feed mill
Introduction of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) into swine herds not only had a significant impact on animal health, but continues to be significant for pork producers and the feed...
Animal Well-being
Dynamic space requirements for non-lame and lame sows determined by lying-standing sequence profile
Understanding how sows utilize their dynamic space envelope could assist animal scientists, agricultural engineers and veterinarians when considering the dynamic space needs in gestation housing. The...
Animal Science
Ventilation improvements for controlling swine production systems
Maintaining acceptable thermal and gas concentration levels during minimum ventilation periods is challenging. The small amount of fresh-air used during cold weather periods needs to be distributed...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluation of dietary soybean meal replacement on grow-finisher pig performance when challenged with PRRS and Mycoplasma
The amino acids requirements of growing-finishing pigs are met by utilizing a variety of protein rich ingredients, including soybean meal (SBM) and distillers dried grains with solubles, as well as...
Swine Health - General Disease
Generation of specimens of precisely known coronavirus infection status for the development and validation of highly-specific porcine coronavirus antibody assays.
• In the field, pigs are exposed to different coronaviruses that are known to share genetic and antigenic traits that may contribute to false-positive results. Recent evidence suggesting...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluating nutritional strategies to mitigate the negative impact PRRS has on grow-finisher pig performance
Of the health challenges the swine industry face, Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) virus is arguably one of the most economically costly viruses to U.S. and world pork production....
Swine Health - General Disease
Determination of the importance of porcine parvovirus type 2 (PPV2) in porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVAD) outbreaks by elimination of PPV2 through vaccination at weaning
Despite widespread porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) vaccination in the growing pig population, occurrence of porcine circovirus associated disease (PCVAD) can be observed particularly in larger...
