The experimental use of an irradiated vaccine against Dictyocaulus viviparus

• Autor(a) principal: Gennari, Solange Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Abdalla, Adibe Luiz
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.sct.embrapa.br/index.php/pab/article/view/15218
• topic: immunization; calves; infestant larvae; lungworms; imunização; dictiocaulose; bezerros; larvas infectantes; vermes dos pulmões

Studies on the immunization of calves against Dictyocaulus viviparus (Bloch 1782) using irradiated vaccine were carried out at Animal Science Division of Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA), Piracicaba, SP. Two groups with 8 calves each were used. Group A received the vaccine prepared at CENA against D. viviparus, and group B was used as unvaccinated control. The vaccine were gived orally with 4 weeks interval between doses. Six weeks after the second vaccination, the animals of both groups were challenged with 60 normal D. viviparus larvae (60 L/kg). The animals were killed five weeks after the challenged dose. A statistically significant difference in the number of lungworm burden was noted between treatments, with a decrease of 98% as a result of vaccination. During the vaccination period the calves of both groups got weight similarly, and two weeks after the challenge dose a decrease in the body weight was observed in the control group. Respiratory rate in vaccinated calves showed to be above normal but was minimal when compared with their respective controls. It was concluded that the vaccine was efficient in the immunization of calves against Dictyocaulus viviparus.