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.
Drs. Schroeder and Shurson discuss “Survival of a surrogate African swine fever virus-like algal virus in feed matrices using a 23-day commercial United States truck transport model.”
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.
Valeria Lugo, Cesar Corzo, and Sagar Goyal of the University of Minnesota compare PRRSV survival rates in water, in this week’s Science page.
Continue reading “Comparative Survival of 5 Strains of PRRSV in Tap Water at 3 Different Temperatures”
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.
This week’s Science Page is a summary of research done by Md Karim Uddin, Shah Hasan, Olli Peltoniemi, and Claudio Oliviero of the University of Helsinki in Helsinki, Finland. The authors looked at the effect of several factors, including birth order, on piglet growth performances and preweaning survival rates.
Continue reading “Summary: The effect of piglet vitality, birth order, and blood lactate on the piglet growth performances and preweaning survival”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.
This week we are sharing the summary of a paper published in open access in the journal called Pathogens by a research team out of Germany looking at the survival of the African Swine Fever virus in the soil.
Continue reading “Stability of ASF virus in soil and mitigation of the transmission risk”A review paper was recently published in the Transboundary and Emerging Diseases journal, result of a collaboration between the University of Minnesota and Alexandria University. In this publication, available in open access, researchers describe the survival rates of the virus on various surfaces and the impact of temperature and humidity.
Continue reading “A review of SARS-CoV2 and other coronaviruses survival in the environment”