Evaluation of inactivated bovine ephemeral fever vaccine in hamster as a model animal

Abstract: Cattle constitute a well documented, but expensive and cumbersome culutre system for bovine ephemeral fever vaccine evaluation. Therefore, the search for a laboratory model animals is in need. In this study, a comparison was held between cattle and Syrian golden hamster for evaluation of locally produced bovine ephemeral fever (BEF), binary ethylenimine (BEI) inactivated, aluminium hydroxide gel adjuvanted vaccine. The results achieved in this study indicated that the level of antibodies by virus neutralization, ELISA and quantitative agar gel precipitations techniques in cattle vaccinated with inactivated vaccine and boostered two weeks post preliminary vaccination reached 1.85 log10 three months post preliminary vaccination, while the protective level appeared since third week in a titre of 1.2 log10. The determination of antibody titers in hamster and by the application of teh same system of vaccination and by the use of same serological techniques showed a satisfactory level of protection since third week post preliminary vaccination (1.2 log10), and this proved that the hamster is a suitable laboratory animal for the evaluation of inatctivated BEF vaccine.
Publication year 2003
Pages 707-714
Availability location معهد بحوث الامصال واللقاحات البيطرية-القاهرة - ش السكة البيضاء - العباسية ص ب 131
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Organization Name
City كفر الشيخ
serial title Kafr EL-Sheikh veterinary medical journal
ISSN 1687-1456
Author(s) from ARC
Agris Categories Animal diseases
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TERMS
Bovine ephemeral fever virus.
Publication Type Journal