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A comparison of intradermal (ID) versus intramuscular (IM) routes of pig vaccination with deleted Aujeszky's disease (AD) vaccine on the formation of specific postvaccinal and postchallenge humoral immune response was performed. The studies were carried out on 21 eight week-old piglets, divided into three groups--two experimental and one control of 7 piglets each. Animals of first two groups were vaccinated twice in 12 and 16 week of age with deleted, live attenuated AD vaccine Porcilis Begonia (Intervet). Group I was vaccinated with a dose of 2.0 ml (10(6.0) TCID50)) intramuscularly (IM) into neck muscles, and group II received 0.2 ml (10(5.0) TCID50) intradermally (ID) in neck area using needleless apparatus SERENA model SD 1-2 (Emplast, Italy). In group K (control) 2.0 ml PBS IM was used. Seventy days after the first vaccination all pigs were intranasally infected with a dose of 10(5.5) TCID50 of virulent Northern Ireland Aujeszky-3 (NIA-3) strain of Herpesvirus suis type 1 (SHV-1) by instilling 0.5 ml of virus suspension into each nostril. Specific humoral immune response was evaluated using seroneutralization (SN) test and gE-ELISA-Pseudorabies virus gpI Antibody Test Kit (Herd Chek Anti-PRV gpI), IDEXX Lab Inc (USA). It was found that challenge caused anamnestic reaction in both groups of vaccinated pigs, but postchallenge immune response was stronger in ID-vaccinated group--on 14 day post infection (dpi) SN antibody level was considerably higher than in IM-vaccinated group. The obtained results suggest that secondary immunological response after challenge is decidedly more effective in the range of evaluated parameters in animals vaccinated by ID route, which can be linked to, perhaps underestimated yet and seldom utilized, skin immunity mechanisms in specific prophylaxis of infectious diseases. Advantages and disadvantages of SN test and ELISA are also discussed.
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PMID:Evaluation of specific humoral immune response in pigs vaccinated intradermally with deleted Aujeszky's disease vaccine and challenged with virulent strain of Herpesvirus suis type 1. 1579 68

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) causes morbidity to livestock and serious economic consequences to its associated industry and therefore it is necessary to develop a safe and efficient vaccine to prevent or control this disease. A recombinant live attenuated virus vaccine, designated PRV-P1, was generated by insertion of an expression cassette containing CMV promoter, FMDV P1 gene and SV 40 poly-A into the gG gene region of a live attenuated pseudorabies virus vaccine strain (TK-/gG-/LacZ+). To determine the induction of protective immunity, 16 FMDV and PRV seronegative white swine were randomly divided into four groups and immunized intramuscularly. The parental virus (TK-/gG-/LacZ+) was injected into three pigs, the recombinant virus PRV-P1 into five pigs and commercial FMD-inactivated vaccine into five pigs, with PBS (negative control) into three pigs. All animals were immunized again 4 weeks later to boost the immune response and challenged with virulent type O FMDV O/ES/2001 strain 4 weeks after the second immunization. Results showed PRV-P1 vaccinated pigs induced high-level neutralizing antibody response to both FMDV and PRV, and strong CTL response against FMD antigen activation. Three of five pigs were completely protected against challenge with FMDV, one pig minimally protected and the other one had increased protection but not complete. However, one pig vaccinated with commercial FMD vaccine developed constant pyrexia. Average levels of antibodies against non-structural 3ABC proteins were significantly lower and efficacy on inhibition of FMDV replication was much increased in swine vaccinated with PRV-P1 than those immunized with commercial FMD vaccine after FMDV challenge. Our results showed that the recombinant PRV-P1 can induce not only humoral and cell-mediated immune responses but also partial protection against FMDV challenge, making it a good candidate for future development of the FMD vaccine.
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PMID:Induction of protective immunity in swine by immunization with live attenuated recombinant pseudorabies virus expressing the capsid precursor encoding regions of foot-and-mouth disease virus. 1843 51