Swine in Minnesota

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.

Mycoplasma? Mesomycoplasma? Metamycoplasma? Which name is the right one?

Today, we are sharing an article on the new Mycoplasma spp. nomenclature written by Drs. Maria Pieters and Mitchell Balish.

Mycoplasma? Mesomycoplasma? Metamycoplasma?
Which name is the right one? Which one should be used?

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.”

Listen to the podcast ~23 minutes

PRRS prevalence comparison among different MSHMP cohorts

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.

MSHMP Researchers Mariana Kikuti, Xiaomei Yue, Marcello Melini, Emily Geary, and Cesar Corzo break down PRRS prevalence among two cohorts of participating farms in this week’s Science Page.

Infection dynamics and incidence of wild-type PRRS virus in growing pigs

This new publication from the Torremorell’s lab is focusing on growing pig herds in the Midwest and how wild-type PRRS virus can spread among them. The full publication is available on the journal’s website.

Highlights

Wild-type PRRSV infections in growing pigs are common and more prevalent towards the middle to end of the growing phase.
Site-level surveillance is useful to understand PRRSV infections in vaccinated pigs.
Biosecurity practices in growing pig sites are key to prevent lateral infections.