Carrie Konoby

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the lesions of PMWS can be experimentally reproduced in gnotobiotic piglets using filterable viral agents derived from pigs with PMWS and provide an experimental basis for further investigation into the pathogenesis and control of this emerging infectious disease in swine.

TL;DR: The potential spectrum of disease associated with PCV2 is expanded by evidence of vertical transmission and associated reproductive failure, and the presence of other agents that have been associated with fetal lesions and abortion in swine could not be established.

TL;DR: Findings confirm and extend previous findings documenting a consistent association of PCV 2 with PMWS and suggest infection by PPV or PCV 1 or both may be an important cofactor in the pathogenesis of some, but apparently not all, cases of PMWS.

TL;DR: Porcine circovirus type 2 was detected in several stillborn and nonviable neonatal piglets presenting with chronic passive congestion, cardiac hypertrophy, and severe diffuse myocarditis.

TL;DR: A competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (c-ELISA) for the detection of antibodies to porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2), the agent associated with the recently described postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome in pigs, is reported.