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Montserrat Torremorell

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15 Articles

Dr. Montserrat Torremorell is currently the A.D Leman Chair in Swine Health and Productivity and an associate professor in the Department of Veterinary Population Medicine at the College of Veterinary Medicine. She earned her DVM degree from the University Autonomous of Barcelona in 1994 and her PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1999.

Dr. Torremorell joined the University of Minnesota in her current role in May 2009. Prior to that, she was employed at Genus/PIC, the largest swine breeding company in the world, in a range of roles related to health assurance and health research. Dr. Torremorell led the efforts in PRRSV elimination where PIC USA was able to move from 12% to 100% PRRSV negative status in 5 years. Dr. Torremorell also participated in the National PRRSV Elimination program in Chile and more recently has worked in swine influenza control and elimination. Dr. Torremorell has an extensive background in swine health, research, and production systems, including health improvement strategies, disease eradication, diagnostics and biosecurity programs, and health genomics.

Dr. Torremorell currently teaches a veterinary elective class in Veterinary Medicine and collaborates in other teaching activities related to swine diseases. She is also the director of the Swine Disease Eradication Center at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Torremorell is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and more than 100 abstracts and articles in conference proceedings. Dr. Torremorell was awarded with the Allen D. Leman Science In Practice Award from Pfizer and the University of Minnesota in 2003 for the work on PRRS elimination. Her research interests include infectious diseases of swine focusing on influenza and other swine diseases of economic significance. For her influenza research, she is interested in further understanding SIV transmission, including aerosol transmission and factors that contribute to the persistence and spread of flu in populations. In addition she is interested in further elucidating strategies to control, eliminate and prevent flu infection in pigs and further understanding the interface pigs and people.

Montserrat Torremorell 15 Articles

Article

Current sanitary problems in the United States

The focus of swine production in the USA has changed over the last five years. Many businesses in the sector have made radical changes in management both from the reproductive and the sanitary point of view.

Article

Climate change and animal diseases (I)

With the earth warming up there is evidence of accelerated changes in habitat distribution changes that in turn may be affecting disease patterns and emergence of diseases.

Article

Climate change and animal diseases (II)

As better information systems capable to measure change in disease patterns, vector distribution and environmental conditions are put in place, we may be surprised about the range of diseases directly or indirectly already affected by climate change.

Health Article

PRRS virus elimination: How to prove herd negativity?

One of the challenges when conducting a disease elimination project is to ensure that the pathogen has in deed been eliminated from the herd.

Health Article

Duration of influenza infections in weaned pig populations

Influenza infections are self-limiting at the individual animal level with infection lasting between 5 and 7 days approximately. However, influenza virus is considered endemic in swine populations worldwide, and is not uncommon to find between 3 and 5% of pigs positive to influenza virus at slaughter.

Health Article

Dynamics of Influenza virus in sow herds: control points

Replacement gilts recently introduced and piglets prior to weaning are the main risk groups.

Facilities-Equipment Article

Air cleaning technologies for the control of airborne pathogens

The most direct strategy to decrease the concentration in the air of airborne pathogens is dust reduction. This article describes the use of a particle ionization system called EPI.

Health Article

Impact of an early exposure to SIV and PRRSv in post-weaning mortality

Infection with swine influenza virus and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome during the suckling period was associated with an increase in post-weaning mortality (more limited in the case of SIV and of larger magnitude for PRRSV).

Health Article

Use of processing fluids for PRRSV diagnostics

We propose to use the processing fluids, the liquid accumulated at the bottom of the pail when farmers collect tails and testicles during routine procedures as a sample.

Health Article

Samples to monitor the influenza virus

Montse Torremorell speaks about different alternatives that are being explored to obtain live animal samples at a reasonable cost.

Health Article

Flu control: don’t forget the piglet!

Nurse sows may represent a source of infection to the newly adopted pigs.

Health Article

COVID-19 and pig viruses – what can we learn?

Lessons learnt from two of the most important virologists of the north American swine industry, Dra. Torremorell and Dra. Culhane, from other coronavirus outbreaks than spread globally within the swine industry.

Health Article

PRRSv elimination or control - What have we learned?

Consider these factors when deciding to eliminate or control PRRSv.

Health Article

Reflecting on 20 years of PRRS

PRRS creates frustrating challenges as it seems we have to keep learning the same lessons we already know, along with the occasional new chapter.

Health Article

Influenza: The value of implementing simple measures consistently

Breaking the chain of infection from humans to pigs and from pigs to humans.