Environmental contamination and pig disease: an Australian microbe evolves

环境污染和猪疾病：澳大利亚微生物的进化

• 批准号: DP150104670
• 负责人: Prof Dena Lyras
• 金额: $ 28.66万
• 依托单位: Monash University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP150104670
• 关键词: Environmental; contamination; pig; disease; Australian

The Australian pig industry produces pork commodities from over 4.75 million pigs per year. Infectious diseases in industrial-scale piggeries can have a devastating effect on pork production, particularly on feed conversion efficiency and growth rates, and can pose downstream environmental contamination and food safety risks. This project aims to assess a current infectious disease problem in pigs by studying a microbe that appears to have uniquely evolved in Australia. These results could inform the rational design of monitoring, prevention and treatment strategies to minimise infection outbreaks in Australian pigs and may result in production benefits to the pork industry, reduced environmental microbial contamination and safer food.

澳大利亚养猪业每年生产超过475万头猪。工业规模养猪场的传染病可能对猪肉生产产生破坏性影响，特别是对饲料转化效率和生长率，并可能造成下游环境污染和食品安全风险。该项目旨在通过研究一种似乎在澳大利亚独特进化的微生物来评估目前猪的传染病问题。这些结果可以为合理设计监测、预防和治疗策略提供信息，以最大限度地减少澳大利亚猪的感染爆发，并可能为猪肉行业带来生产效益、减少环境微生物污染和更安全的食品。