Protection of sheep against experimental footrot by vaccination with pili purified from Bacteroides nodosus |
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| Authors: | D Every T M Skerman |
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| Institution: | Wallaceville Animal Research Centre, Research Division , Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries , Private Bag, Upper Hutt |
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| Abstract: | Merino sheep vaccinated with either whole Bucteroides nodosus organisms, a crude surface antigen preparation or highly purified pili (>99% homogeneity) in oil adjuvant, developed significant resistance to artificial footrot infection when compared with unvaccinated control sheep inoculated with saline-in-oil emulsion (Freund's incomplete adjuvant) alone. The pili-vaccinated sheep generally had higher K-agglutinating antibody titres than sheep vaccinated with whole B. nodosus. These results confirmed the role of B. nodosus pilus protein both as a protective antigen and the K-agglutinogen. Vaccines prepared with Freund's incomplete adjuvant containing either purified pili, crude pili or B. nodosus whole cells did not produce significantly different injection-site reactions. |
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