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With a $1 million Agriculture and Food Research Initiative grant from USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Iowa State University scientists and their collaborators at South Dakota State University, University of Minnesota, Kansas State University, Ohio Animal Disease and Diagnostic Laboratory, and Purdue University are leveraging the Swine Disease Reporting System (SDRS) to rapidly detect new strains of this PRRSV. They have launched a one-of-a-kind web-based tool called the SDRS BLAST Tool (BLAST stands for Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) that allows veterinarians, producers and other users to compare genetic sequences of PRRSV with those in the Swine Disease Reporting System.
The system collects, collates, and monitors diagnostic data of nine infectious agents in U.S. swine herds while keeping farm, producer, production system, veterinarian and participant laboratory confidential.
Researchers said the BLAST Tool has the flexibility to be adapted to receive sequences from other pathogens like African Swine Fever (ASF).
April 29, 2024/ USDA/ United States.
https://www.nifa.usda.gov
