Swine Health Technical Articles
Article published the May 10, 2013:
INTRODUCTION
Lameness in swine, poultry, horses, and cattle have a large negative economical impact to livestock producers (Corr et al., 2003). Multiple definitions of lameness are used. Merriam-Webster (2008)...
Article published the February 27, 2013:
1. INTRODUCTION
Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) since its first report in the late 1980s in Western Europe (Wensvoort et al., 1991) and North America (Keffaber, 1989) has caused a signifi...
Article published the December 10, 2012:
Introduction
The principal characteristic of Atrophic Rhinitis (AR) is a reduced growth rate due to the atrophy of the nasal turbinates caused by the dermonecrotoxin (DNT) released by Pasteurella multocida tox...
Article published the November 28, 2012:
1Harrisvaccines Inc., Ames, IA 50010, USA2Immunobiology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA3Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Io...
Article published the November 28, 2012:
Swine Dysentery (SD), commonly known as bloody scours, is a troublesome disease which had been virtually eliminated through scientific breakthroughs in the 1970s and 1980s.
But today, likely due to changes in ...
Article published the November 28, 2012:
*Harrisvaccines, Inc.;†AlphaVax, Inc;‡Harrisvaccines Inc., Ames, IA;§University of Kentucky, Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center;
Article published the October 4, 2012:
1. Introduction
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) is a highly contagious viral disease that was first recognized almost simultaneously in Western Europe (Wensvoort et al., 1991) and North A...
Article published the September 26, 2012:
Introduction
Necrotic ear syndrome or ear necrosis in pigs has been reported as an increasing health problem in many countries with intensive pig farming.1 It is characterized by large erosive lesions at the ...
Article published the September 17, 2012:
TYPE I IFNS are a family of cytokines prominent in antiviral responses. In contrast to a single type II IFN, i.e., IFN-γ, type I IFNs consist of multiple subclasses including IFN-α, IFN-β,...
Article published the June 18, 2012:
For more than a century nutritionists have been interested in the effect that dietary electrolyte balance has on animal health and performance. It is nowadays well established that the dietary electrolyte bal...