Swine Health - PRRS
Development of a live-attenuated PRRSV vaccine capable of eliciting a broad spectrum of heterologous protection
February 26, 2021By Hiep Vu
PRRS modified live virus (MLV) vaccines have been licensed for clinical administration for over 20 years. The vaccines confer solid protection against homologous PRRSV strains. However, the extent...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of Mortality Composting Parameters Necessary for Inactivation of PEDv
December 29, 2016By Amy Schmidt
This project was conducted in an effort to determine the transmission risk for PEDv following on-farm composting of PEDv-positive swine mortalities. The studies performed were designed to...
Environment - Manure Storage / Application
Influence of the Method and Timing of the Land Application of Manure on the Fate and Transport of Manure Constituents in Soil
December 11, 2016By Xu Li
Through land application multiple manure constituents are introduced to soil. These constituents include nutrients, organic matter, and contaminants such as antimicrobials and antimicrobial...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Refining a model to investigate the interactive effects of health status and nutrition on nutrient and energy utilization in pigs
December 8, 2016By Thomas Burkey
Each year the National Pork Board identifies infectious disease prevention as a high-priority research area. The prevention and treatment of diseases common to swine operations represents a...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of a Novel Self-Propagating PRSSV-VSV G Hybrid Replicon as a Vector for Inducing Broad PRRSV Protection
August 25, 2016By Asit Pattnaik
Throughout successive cycles of Pork Check-off funding, our laboratories (Pattnaik’s and Osorio’s labs) have consistently produced new and fundamental information on: (i) the...
PEDv Survivability in Manure-Amended Soil and Evaluation of Lime Application to Soil as a PEDV Biosecurity Measure
February 25, 2016By Amy Schmidt
This project was conducted in an effort to determine the transmission risk for PEDv in stored manure and manure-amended soil. Specific...
Swine Health - PRRS
Determine the mechanisms of cross-protection against infection with a divergent porcine reproductive and respiratory virus strain
December 11, 2015By Hiep Vu
PRRS modified live virus (MLV) vaccines have been licensed for clinical administration for over 20 years. The vaccines confer solid protection against homologous PRRSV strains. However, the extent...
Environment - Manure Storage / Application
Influence of the Method and Timing of the Land Application of Manure on the Fate and Transport of Manure Constituents in Runoff
October 1, 2015By Xu Li
The objective of this study was to determine how the method and timing of swine manure application may impact the movement of multiple manure constituents in agricultural runoff. The manure...
Swine Health - PRRS
Rational design of a broadly protective vaccine against porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus
November 14, 2014By Hiep Vu
Current PRRS vaccines are not adequately effective for control and eradication of PRRS. The main limitation of the current PRRS vaccines is their sub-optimal coverage against divergent PRRSV strains...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Development of a Nutrition × Health Interaction Model to Study Nursery Pig Performance
August 28, 2014By Philip S. Miller
The goal of this research project was to use Porcine Circovirus 2 (PCV2) challenge model as an approach to study the interaction of nutrition and disease (e.g., PRRS, mycoplasma pneumonia,...
