A team of CVM researchers led by Kimberly VanderWaal (VPM) was recently awarded a 4-year, $800,000 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). The study aims to create an “integrative data science” platform to predict the ability of PRRSV-2 variants to provoke an immune response and spread across farms. The platform will use interconnected machine learning tools from structural biology, computational immunology, and genomic epidemiology.
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Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Viral Diversity within a Farrow-to-Wean Farm Cohort
Today we are sharing a recent publication from the MSHMP team in collaboration with the VanderWaal and Schroeder’s labs. The objective of the study was to assess the diversity of PRRS genomes within a cohort of naïve pigs undergoing a PRRS outbreak. The full paper is available online in open access.
Continue reading “Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Viral Diversity within a Farrow-to-Wean Farm Cohort”Review of MSHMP PRRS Chart 2 ‐ Prevalence
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.
Key Points:
• Chart 2 depicts the prevalence (i.e., the proportion of breeding herds in each of the PRRS status categories over time).
• Since 2013, the proportion of farms that vaccinate (2vx) and that use field virus (2fvi) has not changed dramatically.
• The cyclical pattern of farms in status 1 observed early in the project is slowly disappearing after 2018.
Continue reading “Review of MSHMP PRRS Chart 2 ‐ Prevalence”Introducing the All-New MSHMP Website: Empowering the Swine Community with Knowledge and Collaboration!
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.
We are delighted to announce the successful completion and launch of the first publicly available Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project (MSHMP) website – designed to optimize MSHMP output dissemination within both the participant and industry communities. The website represents a significant milestone in our mission to enhance collaboration and communication within the swine industry.
Continue reading “Introducing the All-New MSHMP Website: Empowering the Swine Community with Knowledge and Collaboration!”Drs. Paploski and Rovira discuss their paper on “Processing the Litter-ature”
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.
In this episode, Dr. Igor Paploski and Dr. Albert Rovira discuss the paper “Phylogenetic Structure and Sequential Dominance of Sub-Lineages of PRRSV Type-2 Lineage 1 in the United States.”