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.

Maria Pieters 6 Articles

Mycoplasmal pneumonia: An important issue for the swine industry

M. Pieters

Recent reports still show high prevalence of the pathogen in most pig producing countries.

Controlling Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infections in the field

M. Pieters

No single strategy will confer total protection. A well-orchestrated combination of various methods adjusted to a single production unit or system will be needed.

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Achieving Day 0 for Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae: What is it? Why should it be done?

M. Pieters

Establishing Day 0 is a crucial step in disease control and elimination programs and should be carefully performed by swine health professionals.

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Time to rethink Mycoplasma surveillance protocols for gilt introduction to negative sow herds

M. Pieters

A. Betlach

Traditional surveillance protocols for Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae should not become a tradition. In this article, the authors give us their field-based research approach for an updated surveillance protocol with increased diagnostic accuracy.

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Pulmonary lesions at the slaughterhouse: how to evaluate them

Collecting data at the slaughterhouse is a common method to obtain information on health and productive parameters, mainly from the last weeks of a pig’s life.