Swine Health - General Disease
Serological Approach for Diagnosis and Surveillance of Multiple Agents in Serum and Oral Fluid Samples
March 8, 2012By Raymond R. Rowland
Fluorescent microsphere immunoassay (FMIA), also known as “Luminex,” allows for the detection of antibodies to multiple antigens in a single, small volume of sample, and can be...
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Towards controlling antimicrobial resistance in swine production systems: harnessing the paradoxical effects of micro-minerals and feed-grade antimicrobials on resistance in enteric bacteria
November 23, 2011By H. Morgan Scott
The present study was aimed at determining the effects of supplemental feed grade antimicrobials on the selection and co-selection of...
Pork Safety
Chlortetracycline, Oxytetracycline, Tetracycline and Bacitracin Tissue Residue Studies in Swine Conducted in Reference to Foreign Export Markets
November 3, 2011By DACVCP|Mike Apley DVM|PhD
The objective of this study was to describe tissue residues of chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline, and tetracycline in slaughter hogs and also bacitracin in cull sows. For the tetracyclines, the...
Swine Health - General Disease
Antigen-specific T cell responses associated with PCVAD pathogenesis
September 30, 2011By Carol Wyatt
This project was intended to determine whether or not pig with PCVAD had T lymphocytes that responded to different epitopes of the PCV CP, when compared with vaccinated pigs or pigs that had been...
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Incidence and severity of Arcanobacterium pyogenes injection site abscesses with needle or needle-free injection methods
July 14, 2010By Terry Houser
The pork industry loses a substantial amount of money each year due to the trimming of pork carcasses in processing plants. A large portion of carcass trimming is due to the presence of abscesses on...
Swine Health - PRRS
Year 2 funding support for the PRRS Host Genetics Consortium: A proposal to study the role of host genetics and resistance to PRRSV
June 22, 2010By Raymond R. Rowland
The PHGC represents the first-of-its-kind approach to food animal infectious disease research. The NPB, PRRS CAP, ARS, USDA AFRI, private companies, and universities have come together to conduct...
Swine Health - General Disease
The role of maternal antibody in determining PCV2 vaccine efficacy
March 25, 2010By Raymond R. Rowland
Commercial PCV2 vaccines are remarkably effective in controlling PCVAD. However, there are still concerns regarding the appearance of what appears to be “vaccination failures”, which...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Influence of dietary DDGS and glycerol on pork loin and bacon quality
March 12, 2010By Terry Houser
An important topic of discussion in the pork industry today is the fat quality of pork carcasses. It is well known that low quality fat (soft, oily fat) can have negative effects on the quality...
Swine Health - General Disease
PCVAD Induced Immune Dysfunction
January 13, 2010By Richard Hesse
This project included a team of PCVAD researchers from KSU, ISU and SDSU who utilized a single set of experimentally infected pigs to address several important questions related to pathobiology,...
Swine Health - General Disease
Mapping T cell epitopes in PCV2 capsid protein
December 11, 2009By Carol Wyatt
Effective circovirus vaccines require minimal numbers of conserved B and T cell epitopes that provide protective immunity. At the same time, vaccines must have the capacity to distinguish infected...
