This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.
The Science Page this week is brought to you by researchers Alice Perrucci, Alice Magri, Vanessa Cardana, Simona Zoppi, Claudia Cossettini, and Annalisa Scollo.
Continue reading “Hygiene procedures of trucks transporting live pigs: multi-assessment validation of a standardized C&D protocol”You won’t want to miss this year’s keynote speakers, who will kick off each day of the Leman Swine Conference!
Continue reading “Meet the 2026 Leman Swine Conference Keynote Speakers”This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.
In this week’s Science Page we take a look at a study by Claudio Marcello Melini, Amanda Palowski, Declan C. Schroeder, and Cesar A. Corzo evaluating PRRSV viability on various surfaces found in growing sites.
Continue reading “Determining farm surface porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) contamination through viability RT-qPCR”
The Swine Disease Eradication Center is proud to present another episode of “Processing the Litter-ature”: a podcast in which peer-reviewed papers are docked, clipped and supplemented with a field perspective.
Drs. Mariana Kikuti and Megan Nickel discuss “Less Invasive Sampling Methods for PRRSV Detection in Swine: Dry Blood Spots, Oral Swabs, and Tonsil Oral Scrubbing in Intentionally Exposed Gilts” with guest host Mark Schwartz.
This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.
Xiaomei Yue, Mariana Kikuti, Marcello Melini, Carlos Lora, Robert Langenhorst, Scott Dee, and Cesar Corzo take a look at the impact of air filtration on PRRS occurrence in today’s Science Page.
Continue reading “Sixteen-year field evidence of air filtration reducing PRRS occurrence in U.S. sow herds”