Avian proventriculitis vaccine
AssigneeThe Research Foundation
InventorsRobert K. Page, Pedro Villegas, Caswell S. Eidson, Daniel Gaudry
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Abstract
A process of preparing a vaccine capable of protecting poultry against avian proventriculitis which comprises: separating proventriculitis reovirus from reovirus-carrying tissue of a poultry animal diseased with proventriculitis; inoculating a cell culture capable of sustaining the growth and replication of the reovirus; extracting the virus from cellular and nonviral components, and rendering the reovirus into a form suitable for administration to poultry, yields a vaccine and an immunization method.
Claims12
A vaccine capable of protecting poultry against proventriculitis, which comprises:
- an antigenic material capable of inducing in said poultry an immune response against avian proventriculitis reovirus, wherein said antigenic material is selected from the group consisting of live, attenuated, and inactivated proventriculitis reovirus and immunologically active subcomponents thereof, wherein said reovirus has the identifying characteristics of ATCC No. VR2040 or a progeny thereof, and
- a pharmacologically acceptable carrier.
Avian proventriculitis reovirus having the identifying characteristics of ATCC No. VR2040 or a progeny thereof.
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