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Maternal immunization with vaccines containing recombinant NetB toxin partially protects progeny chickens from necrotic enteritis
1 Jan 2013
Abstract excerpt
Avian necrotic enteritis is a major economic and welfare issue throughout the global poultry industry and is caused by isolates of Clostridium perfringens that produce NetB toxin. Previously we have shown that birds directly vaccinated with inactivated C. perfringens type A culture supernatant (toxoid) combined with recombinant NetB (rNetB) protein were significantly protected from homologous and heterologous...
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