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July 27, 2007

OVC research highlighted in pork industry magazine

From protecting Ontario herds against Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome (PRSS) to searching for a genetic basis for resistance to disease, the work of OVC researchers is profiled in the current issue of Pigs, Pork and Progress.
Read about the work of Dr. Cate Dewey, Population Medicine, and her team tracking PRSS in Ontario in an effort to understand how it is changing and moving; Dr. Chandrakant Tayade, Biomedical Sciences, who is studying how blood supply management can improve reproduction; a survey of scientific literature to shed light on how to control Salmonella on the farm; Dr. Bonnie Mallard, Pathobiology, on the trail of genes that govern immune response; Drs. Tony Hayes and Andrew Brooks, Pathobiology, and their team searching for genes that offer resistance to bacteria and viruses; Dr. Bob Friendship, Population Medicine, on controlling Porcine Circovirus; and Dr. Andrew Peregrine on the prevalence of the coccidia parasite on Ontario farms.
Pigs, Pork and Progress is published by AgMedia Inc. for Ontario Pork.