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 |
Sow Mortality  | > Paiva et al., Risk factors associated with sow mortality in breeding herds under one production system in the Midwestern United States. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 2023. |
Biosecurity Articles  | > Serafini Poeta Silva et al., Compliance of biosecurity practices for compartmentalization to foot-mouth disease and classical swine fever viruses in commercial swine companies from southern Brazil. Frontiers. 2023 > 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. |