Disease Surveillance Practices and Veterinary Care Use in Small-Scale Swine 

In this scoping review recently published in the journal Animals, Dr. Schambow and colleagues from the Center for Animal Health and Food Safety at the University of Minnesota review veterinary use and access as well as disease surveillance practices in small swine herds across the United States.

Five black pigs in a pasture
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Practical implications of PRRSV testing in pre-farrow and post-farrow sows using TOSC samples and their respective litters

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 today’s Science Page we bring you a summary of research on tonsil oral scrubbing done by Peng Li, Isadora Machado, Thomas Petznick, Emily Pratt, Jinnan Xiao, Chris Sievers, Paul Yeske, Swami Jayaraman, Daniel C. A. Moraes, Guilherme Cezar, Mafalda Mil-Homens, Hao Tong, Kelly Will, Darwin Reicks, Jason Kelly, Onyekachukwu H. Osemeke, Gustavo S. Silva and Daniel C. L. Linhares.

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