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ILHAC Research Priorities: 2013

SWINE:
1. Animal Welfare
2. Antimicrobial Resistance
3. PRRS
4. Swine Influenza
5. Clostridium difficile
6. Circovirus/Porcine Circovirus Associated Disease (PCAD)
7. Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae

DAIRY CATTLE:

1. Herd Health Management Issues
           a. Mastitis
           b. Lameness
           c. Respiratory Diseases
2. Johne's Disease
3. Mycoplasma bovis
4. Antimicrobial Resistance

BEEF CATTLE:
1. Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye)
2. Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD)
3. Mycoplasma bovis - respiratory
4. Antimicrobial Resistance
5. Animal Welfare
6. Johne's Disease
 
POULTRY:
All Poultry - Influenza infections
1. Antimicrobial Resistance and Antibiotic substitutes in poultry production
2. Animal Welfare
 
Turkeys
1. Food Safety
           a. Salmonella
           b. Listeria
           c. Campylobacter jejuni

2. Clostridium - Dermatitis or cellulitis
3. Leg and joint abnormalities
 
Layers
1. Food Safety - Salmonella spp. (SE)

2. Peritonitis - E. coli

SHEEP AND GOATS:

1. Barn Cough, including prolapse (Pneumonia, Mycoplasma)
2. Abortions (and partial abortions) "Pregnancy Wastage" (Neonatal death, failure to dilate)
3. Caseous lymphadenitis

IVMA CONCERNS:  Represents all species
1. Animal Behavior/Welfare
             a. Lameness
2. Antibiotic substitutes

3. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
4. Food Safety/Biosecurity
             a. Aerosol transmission
             b. Farm to farm transmission

5. Resistance to anthelmintics/Parasite (worms) resistance