Coccidiosis Vaccines
AssigneeIntervet International B.V.
InventorsTheodorus Schaap, Catharina Kuiper, Arnoldus Vermeulen
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Abstract
The present invention relates to hydrophilic Eimeria polypeptides, DNA-fragments encoding those peptides, recombinant DNA molecules comprising such DNA-fragments, live recombinant carriers comprising such DNA-fragments or recombinant DNA molecules and host cells comprising such DNA-fragments, recombinant DNA molecules or live recombinant carriers. Furthermore, the invention relates to antibodies against the polypeptides and to coccidiosis vaccines based upon said polypeptides. The invention also relates to methods for the preparation of such antibodies and vaccines, and to methods for the detection of Eimeria parasites and antibodies against Eimeria parasites.
Claims7
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A vaccine for the protection of poultry against Eimeria infection, comprising the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO.:
- 1, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
A method for the preparation of a vaccine for combating Eimeria infections, comprising admixing the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO.:
- 1 with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.