Study plan and preliminary results of the intervention in the Salmonella status of finishing herds by adding organic acids to the drinking water of finishers

Risk factor analysis of Salmonella infections in The Netherlands showed that feeding acidified or fermented byproducts to finishers gave a strong protection against Salmonella infections. This protective effect can be explained by bactericidal effect of the organic acids present in these feeds and the low pH (pH=4). In this study we investigated the hypothesis that the same result could be obtained by adding organic acids to the drinkingwater of finishers on farms that feed their finishers compound feed

Resulls of a longitudinal study of Salmonella enterica infections in 5 sero-positive and 5 sero-negative finishing swine herds in The Netherlands

In order to monitor the course of Salmonella-infections in finishing pig herds, repeated sampling of consecutive batches of finishing pigs is necessary. This study followed 5 sero-negative and 5 sero-positive herds during 7 sampling rounds with 3 months between samplings

Blood sampling at two slaughterhouses and serological screening of salmonella infections in swine using an indirect ELISA

The Animal Health Service in the Netherlands is currently investigating Salmonella infections in finishing pigs in the Netherlands. The investigations combine 2 projects: the SALINPORK-project, financed by the European Union, and a national project \u27Speerpunt Salmonella\u27, financed by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature management and Fisheries and the Dutch Product Board for Livestock and Meat

A compact broadband high efficient X-Band 9-Watt PHEMT MMIC high-power amplifier for phased array radar applications

In this paper the development and measure­ment results of a compact broadband 9-Watt high-efficient X-band high-power amplifier are discussed. The described amplifier has the following state-of-the-art performance: an average output power of 9 Watt, a gain of 20 dB and an average Power Added Effi­ciency of 35% over a relative bandwidth of 40% at X-band. The amplifier is realised in a pseudomorphic HEMT GaAs MMIC technology developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (FhG-IAF) in the scope of the WEAG/TA1/CTP8.1 program