Development of a new inactivated vaccine for equine rhinopneumonitis virus in Japan.
Development of a new inactivated vaccine for equine rhinopneumonitis virus in Japan.
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日本开发马鼻肺炎病毒新型灭活疫苗。
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发表时间:
1980
影响因子:
0.4
通讯作者:
Y. Kawakami
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作者:
Y. Hashiguchi;T. Tokui;Y. Kawakami
In early 1967, an outbreak of abortion and stillbirth caused by Equine Rhinopneumonitis Virus (ERV) occurred mainly with imported horses in the Hidaka district of Hokkaido. Kawakami et aJ.3> found out that the virus HH-1 strain isolated from the aborted fetus was different in antigenicity from Japanese native strains (TH-202> and H-457>) so fa r known, showing the same antigenicity of the virus which is regarded to cause abortions in the United States of America. Since that outbreak of abortion caused by ERV, it has been keenly desired to establish preventive measures. Shimizu et aJ.6,8> reported the result of preliminary experiment with colts that the pre-infection either of native strain or attenuated virus of KyB strain (isolated from aborted fetus in U.S.A. and adapted to hamsteru) was effective in preventing intranasal challenge of HH-1, and that the LKK method, in which inactivated vaccine of KyD strain (aki n to KyBll) or that of the native strain were inoculated twice, after inoculating the native live virus twice, was able to protect intratracheal infection of HH-1 strain9>. Furthermore, in view of the fact that in Japan almost all horses reaching the age of pregnancy are considered to have experienced native virus infection, they?> suggested the possibility of preventing abor tion only by the use of inactivated vaccine. Kawakami et aJ.5> applied the Shimizu's method experimentally to pregnant horses, and repor ted that the inoculation of live (a native strain) and inactivated (KyD strain) vaccine is able to prevent abortion and stillbirth. Now that the horses in Japan, especially pregnant horses, have mostly experienced the native virus infection as pointed out by Shimizu et aJ.7>, an attempt was made to examine the immunity effect of inactivated vaccine alone without live virus inoculation. At first, the culture method of virus was established by propagating the HH-1 strain in calf kidney cell line (CKT) after an adaptation to bovine kidney cell culture. Next, the method of mass-culture was established by using the suspension cell culture method, as the CKT cells can be cultured in big suspension cell culture tanks. Then, the production of inactivated vaccine having higher titer values was made possible by partial purification after concentration of this virus. The vaccine was proved to be safe to horses and highly precautionary against abortion.