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Guilty Gilt Guide
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Guilty Guilt Guide

The Guilty Gilt Guide was written with a clear objective – to maximize the whole-herd performance of pig populations by helping gilts to reach their full reproductive potential and produce healthy pigs that reach their full genetic potential during grow-finish.

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Implementing a user-friendly format to analyze PRRSV next-generation sequencing results and associating breeding herd production performance with number of PRRSV strains and recombination events

The open reading frames (ORF)5 represents approximately 4% of the porcine repro- ductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV)-2 genome (whole-PRRSV) and is often determined by the Sanger technique, which rarely detects >1 PRRSV strain if present in the sample.

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Refining PRRSV-2 genetic classification based on global ORF5 sequences and investigation of their geographic distributions and temporal changes

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is an important swine pathogen affecting the global swine industry.

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Effect of multiple vaccinations on transmission and degree of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infection in gilts

Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M. hyopneumoniae) infections continue to result in significant respiratory challenges in the swine industry worldwide. Vaccination for M. hyopneumoniae is commonly utilized, as reduction in bacterial loads and clinical severity in vaccinated pigs have been shown. However, the effect of M. hyopneumoniae vaccination on transmission across different pig populations has been minimally investigated.

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A methodical approach to PRRS management, success story of production improvements

Strategic use of PRRS MLV, herd closure, and flow management in a 26000-sow production system to improve the reproductive and growing pig performance.

A significant improvement in reproductive and growing pig performance was achieved  by a well-defined process that included the strategic use of Ingelvac PRRS MLV.

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PRRSPRESS – Derailing the PRRS virus

Wean to finish site with pigs coming from four to 11 different sow herds in Canada, and varying PRRS status.

Ingelvac PRRS MLV was used at the day of pig arrival to stabilize the pig population.

Ongoing improvement in the operation was observed with the PRRS management program.

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Vaccination with Ingelvac PRRS MLV for horizontal transmission control in Korean swine farm

Two-hundred sow farm (farrow to finish) located in South Korea.

PRSSV horizontal transmission occurred post-weaning with apparent clinical manifestation of disease.

Implementation of a PRRSV MLV vaccination program in piglets controlled PRRSV infection and reduced clinical signs and mortality.

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Modified live PRRSV vaccination is efficacious following challenge with eight genetically diverse PRRSV isolates

The objective of this report was to summarize experimental data on PRRSV MLV efficacy following challenge with genetically diverse PRRSV field isolates.

Use of a modified-live PRRSV vaccine significantly reduced lung lesions in multiple challenge models.