The AASV Foundation granted $18,372 to Dr Cesar Corzo and co-investigators from the University of Minnesota to fund the proposal, "Assessing time to negative processing fluids in breeding herds after a Senecavirus A (SVA) outbreak" in 2020. The project is complete and the final report is available.
The three objectives of the study are to estimate the time to negative after an SVA outbreak by using processing fluids, assess the role of heat-check boars in the perpetuation, persistence, and transmission of SVA within a farm, and estimate the production losses associated with an SVA outbreak. This project will lead to a better understanding of herd-level SVA epidemiology and implementation of aggressive programs for system-level elimination.
This research will be presented at the 2021 Allen D. Leman Swine Conference.
Final report: Assessing time to negative processing fluids in breeding herds after a Senecavirus A (SVA) outbreak