Tag Archive: diagnosis, disease monitoring, health, Lisa Becton
Virtual clinic drives better understanding of disease outbreaks
Oct 12, 2017Jennifer GrullonComments Off on Virtual clinic drives better understanding of disease outbreaks
A virtual veterinary clinic that monitors pig-disease trends and provides an early alert system for diagnostic laboratories and swine practitioners is helping the US pork industry stay head of...Oropharyngeal swabs offer alternative for PRRSV diagnosis in wean-age pigs
May 19, 2017Jennifer GrullonComments Off on Oropharyngeal swabs offer alternative for PRRSV diagnosis in wean-age pigs
Taking oropharyngeal swabs — that is, samples from the tonsils — appears to be an effective alternative means for detecting PRRSV in wean-age pigs, especially when the prevalence of infection is...Losing family swine herd to disease turned this farmhand into a veterinarian
May 19, 2017Jennifer GrullonComments Off on Losing family swine herd to disease turned this farmhand into a veterinarian
As a child, when the swine disease pseudorabies (Aujeszky’s disease) forced his father to sell all the family’s pigs and start over, Andrew Bents got the calling to become a swine veterinarian.