Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Employing phage therapy to reduce lairage associated increases in Salmonella infections and shedding
July 23, 2008By Paul Ebner
Contamination of meat and meat products with foodborne pathogens is usually the result of the carcass coming in contact with the feces of an infected animal during processing. In the case of...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of a new etiological agent of PMWS/PDNS in conventional pigs
March 25, 2008By Gregory W. Stevenson
Porcine circovirus-associated disease (PCVAD) is considered a multifactorial disease since a variety of cofactors, including infectious agents, seem to be necessary for full expression of clinical...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
The effects of water delivery of probiotics or organic acids on weanling pig performance, intestinal health and integrity, and immune status
June 1, 2007By John Scott Radcliffe
Swine Health - PRRS
The role of downtime in pathogen contamination of swine facilities
October 9, 2006By Dr. Sandra Amass
The effectiveness of decontamination procedures and downtimes in reducing PRRSV and bacterial contamination of wean-finish and nursery rooms of a commercial swine farm was tested. The herd was...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Carbohydrate and Bacterial Non-antibiotic Production Enhancers
June 1, 2006By John A. Patterson
Although there is a relatively small data set on specific probiotic or prebiotic treatments, especially when the experiments also have an antibiotic treatment as a positive control, there is an...
Environment - Air
Quantification of gas and odor emissions from swine wean-finish facilities
May 15, 2006By Alan Sutton
The most significant change seen in the swine industry has occurred over the last sixty years. We have seen a shift from many farms producing a limited number of pigs to a small number of large...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
A comparison of administration routes of direct fed microbials to nursery pigs, and the effects on growth performance and gut health
August 10, 2005By John Scott Radcliffe
Direct fed microbials (DFM) have been investigated as a potential replacement for sub-therapeutic antibiotics in swine diets with mixed results being reported. Our results, found no overall...
Swine Health - General Disease
A novel PRRS vaccine in a bacterial vector known to stimulate strong cell-mediated and humoral immunity
November 5, 2004By MVSc|PhD|Ramesh Vemulapalli BVSc&AH
The results of this research project suggest that, despite several unique, advantageous properties, Brucella abortus RB51 is not very useful for developing effective recombinant PRRS vaccines.
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Evaluation of antimicrobial alternatives to reduce the development of antibiotic resistance
June 16, 2004By Darryl Ragland DVM|PhD
The oregano oil product evaluated did not enhance nursery pig performance or influence the development of antimicrobial resistance to the panel of antibiotics used to screen resistance. While a high...
Public Health - Other Zoonotic Diseases
Fate and transport of E. coli in soil and subsurface settings: Swine Waste Management within the context of TMDL’s
February 4, 2004By Ronald F. Turco|Sylvie Brouder
The development of manure application recommendations has not taken into account the survival, movement and biotic interactions of bacteria in agricultural soils, and in fact may enhance survival of...
