PRRS virus continues to create new variants, what a surpriseโฆ However, as unfortunate as it is, we need to tract the spread and transmission of these new variants to best keep our herds healthy. In this episode, I talk with Dr. Mariana Kikuti about her work tracking a novel PRRSV 1C variant across many farms in the Midwest and what its presence could mean for many farms in the US.
Dr. Mariana Kikuti is a veterinary doctor with a Masters of public health and a Ph.D. in epidemiology. Currently, she is a Researcher at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests focus on epidemiology of emerging and infectious diseases. Her current work involves mainly curating a PRRSV sequence library and using molecular epidemiology approaches to investigate patterns of disease transmission and viral evolution.
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