DNA Vaccines Against Mycoplasma Elicit Humoral Immune Responses in Ostriches.

ABSTRACT: In ostriches, the population densities resulting from intensive rearing increases susceptibility to pathogens such as mycoplasmas. In addition to good management practices, vaccination offers an attractive alternative for controlling mycoplasma infections in food animals, instead of using antibiotics, which often leave unacceptable residues. The use of live attenuated vaccines, however, carry the concern of reversion to virulence or genetic recombination with field strains. Currently there are no commercially available vaccines against ostrich-infecting mycoplasmas and this study therefore set out to develop and evaluate the use of a DNA vaccine against mycoplasma infections in ostriches using an OppA protein as antigen. To this end, the oppA gene of "Mycoplasma nasistruthionis</

SUBMITTER: Wium M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6527592 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature