In 2020, 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."
The three objectives of the study were 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 led to a better understanding of herd-level SVA epidemiology and implementation of aggressive programs for system-level elimination.
Final report: Assessing time to negative processing fluids in breeding herds after a Senecavirus A (SVA) outbreak.
The research was published 5 Jan 2024 in Porcine Health Management: First assessment of weeks-to-negative processing fluids in breeding herds after a Senecavirus A outbreak.
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