Jeffrey J. Zimmerman

TL;DR: PRRS imposes a substantial financial burden on US swine producers and causes approximately dollar 560.32 million in losses each year, and current PRRS control strategies are not predictably successful; thus, PRRS-associated losses will continue into the future.

TL;DR: Animal-level economic impact of productivity losses and other costs attributed to PRRSV were estimated using an enterprise budgeting approach and extrapolated to the national level on the basis of the US breedingherd inventory, number of pigs marketed, and number of pork imported for growing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the economic impact of productivity losses and other costs attributed to PRRSV were estimated using an enterprise budgeting approach and extrapolated to the national level on the basis of the US breedingherd inventory, number of pigs marketed, and number of pig imported for growing.

TL;DR: Results clearly indicate that the 15-kD protein is the most immunogenic of the 4 viral proteins identified and may provide the antigenic basis for the development of improved diagnostic tests for the detection of PRRS virus antibodies.

TL;DR: The results of this experiment suggest that pen-based oral fluid sampling could be an efficient, cost-effective approach to PRRSV surveillance in swine populations.