Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Systematic Review of Antibiotic Resistance of Public Health Importance in Environments near Swine Operations
August 31, 2015By Randall Singer
Systematic reviews are a rigorous knowledge synthesis technique first developed in the health sciences to summarize information from numerous randomized trials examining the clinical efficacy of an...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluation of an in vitro digestibility procedure for dietary fiber in high fiber feed ingredients fed to growing pigs
August 7, 2015By Gerald Shurson
Use of high fiber feed ingredients in commercial swine diets is a common strategy to decrease feed costs during times of high corn and soybean meal prices. However, the addition of high fiber...
Public Health - MRSA
Prevalence and characterization of Staphylococcus aureus in pigs in the USA
August 3, 2015By Peter Davies
Over the last 10 years, concerns have grown about the possible importance of livestock reservoirs as a source of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). S. aureus is a normal...
PEDV Feedback Protocol Optimization to Improve Immunity and Productivity
April 8, 2015By Michael P. Murtaugh
The take-home messages for producers are that simple feedback protocols induce good immunity, protection is durable for months, serology can be improved, and lactogenic immunity appears dependent on...
Swine Health - General Disease
Environmental stability of PDCoV (porcine delta coronavirus)
March 31, 2015By Sagar M. Goyal
Feasibility of viability PCR and ex-vivo bioassay to detect viable PED virus in feed. Identification
February 13, 2015By Montse Torremorell
Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) was first detected in the United States in April 2013, spread rapidly, affected most of the swine...
PDCoV ELISA development
February 2, 2015By Michael P. Murtaugh
Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) was first identified in the United States in February 2014 in pigs with unexplained diarrheal disease in which PDCoV was later observed to be present. Diagnosis of...
PEDV antibody-based diagnostic test improvement for evaluation of immunity in milk, feces, and serum
February 2, 2015By Michael P. Murtaugh
Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), an enteric coronavirus related to transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV), appeared suddenly in the United States in April 2013. Epidemic sow herd...
Risk assessment of feed ingredients of porcine origin as vehicles for transmission of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV)
January 16, 2015By Peter Davies
Risk assessment is a set of formal methods used to try to quantify risk associated with a defined activity. Generally it involves integrating all the information that can be found on the...
Interventions to control PEDv (porcine epidemic diarrhea virus) in feed and feed ingredients
December 31, 2014By Sagar M. Goyal
We studied the effect of low heat (600C, 700C, 800C, and 900C); high heat (1200C, 1300C, 1400C, and 1450C); irradiation; and the addition of drying agents/acidifiers on the killing of PEDV in swine...
