Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
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Swine Health - General Disease
Heterologous prime-boost vaccination protocols using whole inactivated influenza A virus vaccines to drive improved heterologous cross-protection
Public Health - MRSA
Origin, evolution, and zoonotic potential of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus found in US swine farms
Reports claiming that livestock, particularly pigs, could serve as a reservoir for the ‘superbug’ methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) shocked the medical and veterinary...
Swine Health - PRRS
The effect of PRRSv infection on the thymus – a source of immune dysregulation?
PRRSv infection has been shown to cause an acute lymphopenia (loss of cells in the blood), lymphadenopathy (increased size of lymph nodes due to increased cell numbers) and thymic atrophy (decreased...
Swine Health - General Disease
Live-animal assay for identifying correlates of protection/cross-protection for intranasal swine influenza virus vaccines
The majority of vaccines currently available for the prevention of influenza A virus (IAV) in swine are formulated as whole-inactivated...
Swine Health - PRRS
Defining a Novel Structural Component of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus and its Role in Disease Pathogenesis
The objective of this project was to characterize the makeup of nsp2, shown to be a new structural component of the PRRSV virion. Radiolabelled nsp2 protein, in the absence or presence of...
Swine Health - PRRS
Assessment of heteroclite-vectored cytokines as a means to increase efficiency of modified live PRRSV DIVA vaccine preparations
Many significant hurdles have complicated vaccine development for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV). This work utilized a naturally occurring byproduct of PRRSV replication...
Swine Health - PRRS
Global Gene Expression Profiling of PRRSV-infected Alveolar Macrophages
This study examined the effect of porcine reproductive and respiratory virus (PRRSV) on how genes are expressed in porcine alveolar macrophages (PAMs). PAMs were chosen for this study because they...
