Disease Prevention (Biosecurity)
We have focused on development and evaluation of strategies to help producers and veterinarians to assess biosecurity under field conditions:
| Title | Link to Material |
Biosecurity Articles  | > Silva et al., General biosecurity scoring system. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 2019. > Silva et al., Development and validation of a scoring system to assess the relative vulnerability of swine breeding herds to the introduction of PRRS virus. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 2018. > Silva et al., Biosecurity at your hands: measure risks to control losses. National Hog Farmer. Oct, 2018. |
Presentations | > Linhares et al., 2020. Advances on biosecurity in response to economically significant emerging pathogens. ABCS webinar on biosecurity – slides in Portuguese. > Broc Mauch et al. 2020 American Association of Swine Veterinarians (veterinary student session) > Linhares et al., 2019 American PRRSpective meeting, Mexico. > Silva et al., 2019 AASV Biosecurity scoring systems. > Linhares et al., 2019 AVIA conference: Applications for comprehensive and/or simplified biosecurity scoring systems in swine breeding herds. > Silva et al., Identifying biosecurity aspects associated with PRRS outbreaks: minimum number of questions that when combined give great correlation w/ frequency of outbreaks. 2018 ISU McKean. |