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.
Continue reading “Best of Leman 2023: Kim VanderWaal – Chasing a moving target: Rapid evolution and spread of PRRSV in the U.S.”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.
Kansas State University researcher Allison K. Blomme, Tate L. Ackerman, Cassandra K. Jones, Jordan T. Gebhardt, Jason C. Woodworth, Chad B. Paulk, and Roman M. Pogranichniy share findings about how long PRRSV can be harbored in different feed products.
Continue reading “Isolation of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus from feed ingredients and complete feed, with subsequent RT-qPCR analysis”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, researchers Matteo Tonni, Claudia Romeo, Nicoletta Formenti, M. Beatrice Boniotti, Flavia Guarneri, Livio Colosio, Simone Andreoni, Federico Scali, Paolo Pasquali and G. Loris Alborali share their findings from monitoring Italian breeding herds.
Continue reading “PRRS monitoring by processing fluids in Italian swine breeding farms”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.
Continue reading “CVM researchers awarded $800,000 USDA grant to create integrative data platform for major swine disease”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 MSHMP weekly report contains the graphic representation of the occurrence and dynamics of specific swine pathogens using epidemiologic tools that measures of disease occurrence such as, prevalence, cumulative prevalence and incidence. In this science page we would like to reacquaint our audience with a few of these tools.
Continue reading “Measures of disease occurrence review”