Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Alternative antibiotic technologies for weaned pigs
May 3, 2017By Ross Beier
New technologies are needed to help livestock producers maintain health and wellbeing of their animals while minimizing risks of disseminating antimicrobial resistant bacteria to humans or animals....
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Development of a practical, cost-effective, easy to administer prebiotic intervention to reduce carriage of zoonotic pathogens on the farm and entering the abattoir
November 2, 2015By Robin C. Anderson
The gut of pigs can be colonized with important foodborne and disease causing bacteria such as Salmonella, E. coli and Campylobacter. New treatments and strategies are sought to reduce the carriage...
Public Health - Other Zoonotic Diseases
Epidemiological survey to determine the prevalence of Clostridium difficile in swine in an integrated swine operation
May 26, 2009By Roger B. Harvey
In recent years, there has been increased incidence and severity of human disease associated with the bacterium Clostridium difficile (Cd). It appears that epidemic disease is being caused by newly...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Toll-like receptor agonist administration for the prevention of Salmonella colonization of the swine gut
May 20, 2008By Kenneth Genovese
The main objectives of this research project were to determine if the oral administration of certain novel innate (“natural”) immune enhancers would protect piglets against Salmonella...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Quantitative evaluation of selective factors impacting the development, amplification, persistence and transfer of macrolide resistance elements within mixed populations of commensal and pathogenic gut bacteria.
February 28, 2007By Robin C. Anderson
A series of laboratory experiments were conducted to assess the effects of low (25 ug/ml) or high (100 ug/ml) tylosin treatment on potential development, amplification, persistance and transfer of...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Sequencing of 10 potential molecular epidemiological targets from a collection of food safety relevant Salmonella spp.
July 12, 2006By Scot Dowd
The development and testing of molecular epidemiological tools for pre-harvest food safety applications is an important and rapidly evolving issue. This means that it is vital to track bacterial...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Bioinformatics Based Genome Comparison of Six Salmonella spp. to Provide a Foundation for the Development of Reliable Molecular Epidemiological Methods.
August 3, 2004By Scot Dowd
Salmonella research is the top priority for the pig industry especially related to pre-harvest reduction of pathogens with potential public health significance. The pre-harvest food safety research...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Effect of Competitive Exclusion on Post-Weaning Escherichia coli Infection
May 31, 2001By Kenneth Genovese
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Effect of Sodium Chlorate on Salmonella Typhimurium in the Pig Gut
May 30, 2001By Robin C. Anderson
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Factors Affecting Campylobacter Status of Swine
September 24, 1999By Roger B. Harvey
