We are still busy at the Leman Swine Conference. In the meantime, here are a few posts you may have missed:
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Continue reading “Are you a veterinarian in rural Minnesota? We need your input!”This is our most popular series on the blog. Once a month, we are sharing with you a presentation given at the Allen D. Leman swine conference, on topics that the swine group found interesting, innovative or that lead to great discussions.
You can find all of the presentations selected from previous conferences on the blog here.
This year’s Leman Swine Conference starts September 21! We can’t wait to see everyone there!
Continue reading “Best of Leman: Martha Nelson – How swine production practices drive the evolution of influenza A viruses”Article originally published in the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota news.
Noelle Noyes, associate professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine, has received a 5-year, $3.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease to develop an important new tool for combating antimicrobial resistance. Her team is taking a novel approach to understanding the genetics behind antimicrobial resistance, an approach that could have significant practical applications for patient treatment and public health.
Noelle Noyes and postdoctoral fellow Tara Gaire review data produced by the TELSeq workflow.
Continue reading “Dr. Noelle Noyes leads the resistance – against antimicrobial resistance”Today we are sharing a new publication from a collaboration with our colleagues at the School of Public Health and the College of Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences at the University of Minnesota. In this study, Drs. Sampedro, Urriola, Van de Ligt, Schroeder, and Shurson estimated the maximal viral load of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea and African Swine Fever that could be found in spray-dried porcine plasma to still achieve a virus-free batch (no infectious viral particle) for three different batch sizes (10, 15, and 20 tons). They also quantified the impact of different treatments such as spray-drying, UV and extended storage in decreasing viral loads to meet the thresholds.
