Polyvalent shipping fever vaccine
AssigneeTexas Vet Lab, Inc.
InventorWilson H. Wohler, Jr.
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Abstract
Veterinary compositions of matter useful as vaccines in the biologic treatment of a multifaceted livestock disease syndrome which is commonly referred to as "shipping fever", the present compositions of matter include the killed bacteria associated with the cause of the disease syndrome preferably in a water/oil emulsion. The invention further provides a method for the prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of the shipping fever disease syndrome with the aforesaid compositions of matter.
Claims4
A method for prophylactically and therapeutically treating livestock for selected specific disease entities that constitute either individually or in combination the bacterial phase of the shipping disease syndrome prior to exposure, during incubation, or during the symptomatic phase of the disease, which method comprises:
- administering to said livestock subcutaneously into the lymph drainage of the cervical region an effective amount of a water-in-oil emulsion having suspended in the aqueous phase thereof a mixture consisting essentially of the killed forms of Pasteurella multocida, Pasteurella hemolytica, and Salmonella typhimurium.
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