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Newcastle Disease
Findings from S.C. Zoth and co-researchers advance knowledge in Newcastle disease
July 9th, 2008
"Newcastle disease virus (NDV) is the causative agent of an economically important disease, which affects all species of birds worldwide. Current vaccination programs for NDV include the use of either low-virulent live-virus vaccines or inactivated vaccines to induce protective immunity while producing minimal adverse effects in birds," scientists in Buenos Aires, Argentina report. "In order to further characterize the immune response elicited by live virus and inactivated NDV conventional vaccines in chickens, we evaluated the presence of specific antibodies in different secretions and in tissue culture supernatants of immunized birds. To this end, we analyzed all the...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-07-09)
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