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, Iowa State researchers Page Berenice Munguía-Ramírez, Betsy Armenta-Leyva, Alexandra Henao-Díaz, Ting-Yu Cheng, Jianqiang Zhang, Gaurav Rawal, Fangshu Ye, Luis Giménez-Lirola and Jeffrey J. Zimmerman summarize three studies looking at the effect of temperature and time on the detection of PRRSV by PCR in serum, oral fluids and fecal samples.
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