Maria Pieters

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Maria Pieters was born in Venezuela, where she obtained her degree in Veterinary Medicine/Science from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (Maracay, Aragua) in year 2003. After obtaining her degree, María worked at the Swine Diagnostic Laboratory (EDV) before entering the career program at the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, MN), where she obtained her PhD in Veterinary Medicine/Science in 2008. During her doctorate María had, as her tutors, Dr. Carlos Pijoan and Thomas Molitor. In year 2008 she started working at the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IL) for the obtaining of her post-doctorate degree at the Institute for Genomic Biology.

Dr. Pieters is, currently, a researcher pertaining to the swine group at the University of Minnesota, where she works, specifically, at the Veterinary Population Medicine Department and the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. Her current fields of research are Swine Health, with a special focus on bacterial respiratory diseases, the development of diagnostic systems against pathogenic mycoplasmas that affect animals and the studies on the persistence of this microorganism in the affected animals, the role of the immune response, epidemiology, the control of the eradication of pathogenic Mycoplasmas, and the study of the intestinal microbiota as a modulator of the immune response.

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05-Feb-2018calavetThe data on vaccination against M.Hyopneumoniae are as evidenced by the author not resolutive for elimination of the disease.
Considering that Circovirus2 has the lymphocyte multiplication site, perhaps we risk reproducing the postweaning multisystemic wasting
syndrome (PMWS).
Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae bacterins and porcine circovirus type 2
(PCV2) infection: Induction of postweaning multisystemic wasting
syndrome (PMWS) in the gnotobiotic swine model of PCV2-associated
disease
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25-Feb-2015BillAm a small pig farmer in the small country called Malawi in Africa and I found that this has a very useful info about pig. I hope these articles will help me to manage my pig farm well.thank you so much keep it up.

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