AgriFutures Chicken Meat Program RD&E Snapshot
As we head into a new research, development and extension (RD&E) period for the Australian chicken meat industry (2022–2027), it is timely to reflect on...
CHICKEN MEAT
NEW FOWL POX VACCINE EVALUATION – Evaluation of fowl pox (FPV) strains free of reticuloendotheliosis virus as vaccines for use i
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Published: 1 Sep 2003
Author(s): Boyle, David B., Dr.
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The project reported on herein was aimed at undertaking vaccine efficacy, safety and adventitious agent testing prior to the conduct of a field trial for the registration of one of these candidate vaccine strains for use in Australian poultry flocks. The benefits to the industry to accrue from this work will be the availability of a new FPV vaccine strain that is more immunogenic than the currently available vaccine strains. The new vaccine strain should be suitable to boost immunity to FPV in mature age birds and thus reduce the losses in broiler breeder flocks associated with fowl pox disease.
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