Protection of goats against Caribbean and African heartwater isolates by the Ball 3 heartwater vaccine. Academic Article

abstract

• Two groups of castrated male adult goats (three goats/group) were infected intravenously with the Ball 3 vaccine strain of Cowdria ruminantium and treated with long-acting oxytetracycline at the onset of clinical disease 10 days later. Five weeks post-vaccination one group was challenged with a Caribbean isolate (Gardel) and the other group with a West African isolate (Mali) of C. ruminantium. Non-vaccinated controls infected with either the Gardel or Mali isolate died. All of the vaccinated animals challenged with the Gardel strain reacted and survived. The three vaccinated animals challenged with the Mali isolate also reacted and two died of heartwater.

authors

• Logan, Linda

published proceedings

• Trop Anim Health Prod

author list (cited authors)

• Brown, C. C., Logan, L. L., Mebus, C. A., & Nagorski, K.

citation count

• 6

complete list of authors

• Brown, CC||Logan, LL||Mebus, CA||Nagorski, K

publication date

• May 1989

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

keywords

• Animals
• Brain
• Fluorescent Antibody Technique
• Goats
• Heartwater Disease
• Neutrophils
• Oxytetracycline
• Time Factors
• Vaccination

PubMed Central ID

• 2665252

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/BF02236186

start page

• 100

end page

• 106

volume

• 21

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02236186

user-defined tag

• 3 Good Health and Well-Being