Poultry Coccidiosis: Design and Interpretation of Vaccine Studies.

ABSTRACT: Eimeria infection impacts upon chicken welfare and economic productivity of the poultry sector. Live coccidiosis vaccines for chickens have been available for almost 70 years, but the requirement to formulate blends of oocysts from multiple Eimeria species makes vaccine production costly and logistically demanding. A multivalent vaccine that does not require chickens for its production and can induce protection against multiple Eimeria species is highly desirable. However, despite the identification and testing of many vaccine candidate antigens, no recombinant coccidiosis vaccine has been developed commercially. Currently, assessment of vaccine efficacy against Eimeria, and the disease coccidiosis, can be done only through in vivo vaccination and challen

SUBMITTER: Soutter F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7054285 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature