Research Focus Areas

Disease Pathogenesis, Immunity, and Control

• Biosecurity
• Air filtration
• Biocontainment technologies
• Gilt acclimation
• Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae
• Porcine Reproductive Respiratory Syndrome
• Influenza A virus
• Diagnostics
• Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus and Porcine Deltacoronavirus multiplex real time RT-PCR
• Whole virus ELISA for Senecavirus A

Transmission and Epidemiology

• Within farm transmission
• Spatial epidemiology
• Risk factors
• Swine Health Monitoring Project
• Airborne transmission

Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases

• Senecavirus A