ILHAC Research Priorities: 2012

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. Lameness
           b. Mastitis
           c. Respiratory Diseases
2. Antimicrobial Resistance
3. Johne's Disease
4. Mycoplasma bovis

BEEF CATTLE:
1. Johne's Disease
2. Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye)
3. Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD)
4. Mycoplasma bovis - respiratory
5. Antimicrobial Resistance
6. Animal Welfare

POULTRY:

All Poultry - Influenza infections

1. Avian Influenza (AI)
2. Antimicrobial Resistance and Antibiotic substitutes in poultry production
3. Animal Welfare
Turkeys
1. Food Safety
          a. Salmonella
          b. Listeria
           c. Campylobacter jejuni
2. Clostridium - Dermatitis or cellulitis

SHEEP AND GOATS:
1. Barn Cough (Pneumonia, Mycoplasma)
2. 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
6. Porcine metabolic disease (namely Vitamin D deficiency)
7. Bovine abortion - causes/prevention strategies
8. Antibiotic residue avoidance in dairy cattle