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Field trials of an inactivated oil-adjuvant vaccine against louping-ill (Arbovirus group B)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 May 2009
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A single dose of inactivated louping-ill oil-adjuvant vaccine elicited a serologically detectable immune response in sheep lasting for at least 1 year. These sheep when exposed to a natural focus of louping-ill virus were completely protected from clinical disease and 1 year after vaccination were able to pass on a substantial maternal immunity to their lambs.
Twenty-nine per cent of unvaccinated sheep, exposed at the same time, died from clinical louping-ill; half of the survivors showed positive sero-conversion and became immune, while the other half remained susceptible. The incidence of fatal encephalomyelitis in sheep which were known to have circulated virus exceeded 50% in 2 out of 3 trials conducted simultaneously in different locations in Scotland in 1969.
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