Vaccination of Pigs Against Hog Cholera (Classical Swine Fever) With a Detergent Split Vaccine

Four pigs were inoculated subcutaneously with a detergent (triton X 100) split hog cholera virus in Freund’s incomplete adjuvant. Four other pigs were in the same way inoculated with a detergent split bovine viral diarrhoea virus, also in Freund’s incomplete adjuvant. In the experiment were used 3 control pigs. The vaccinations were repeated after 3 weeks. All pigs were challenged with highly virulent hog cholera virus (Tübingen) 12 weeks after primary inoculations. Signs of hog cholera were only noted in the control pigs.This introductory experiment was succeeded by a larger experiment with subcutaneous inoculations of: 10 pigs with detergent split hog cholera virus in Freund’s incomplete adjuvant, 10 pigs with detergent split hog cholera virus in a saponin (Quil A) solution, 10 pigs with detergent split bovine viral diarrhoea virus in Freund’s incomplete adjuvant, 10 pigs with detergent split bovine viral diarrhoea virus in the Quil A solution plus 5 control pigs. The vaccinations were repeated after 3 weeks, and finally all pigs were challenged 9 weeks later with the highly virulent hog cholera virus strain.With the exception of 1 animal which died accidentally, all animals survived in the groups inoculated with the Quil A vaccines and in the group inoculated with the detergent split hog cholera virus/oil adjuvant vaccine. In the group inoculated with the detergent split bovine viral diarrhoea virus/oil adjuvant vaccine, some of the pigs died of hog cholera.     

用单克隆抗体纯化酶联免疫吸附试验监测猪瘟抗体发现隐性猪瘟

用单克隆抗体纯化酶联免疫吸附试验监测瘟血清抗体。测得该场母猪４０份血清样品中，猪瘟弱毒抗体效价ＯＤ值较高，有１００％保护率，测得仔猛进４０份血清样品中，猪瘟弱毒抗体效价ＯＤ值适中，有８７．６％的保护率。     

应用FA及PPA-ELISA技术对猪瘟的检测

用免疫荧光抗体诊断技术及单克隆抗体纯化酶联免疫吸附试验诊断技术对疑为猪瘟病毒感染猪进行了检测 ,重点阐述了 2种方法的技术原理和操作过程。通过用免疫荧光抗体诊断技术检测了 5份病料 ,其中有 2份为阳性 ,阳性率为 40 % ;用单克隆抗体纯化酶联免疫吸附试验诊断技术检测了猪瘟血清抗体 ,在 40头母猪血清样品中 ,猪瘟弱毒抗体效价 OD值较高 ,有 1 0 0 %的保护率 ,但是发现母猪群中有 1 0 %隐性猪瘟感染 ,其强毒抗体效价 OD值大于 0 .5,体内带有猪瘟病毒。结果及过程表明此两种诊断方法检测快速、鉴别准确、分辨率高     

The Transmission of Hog Cholera Virus by Trichinella Spiralis Larvae

Studies have been carried out to determine (a) the possible role of T. spiralis larvae in the transmission of hog cholera virus and (b) to determine the effect of elevated swine temperature on the viability of trichinae. Trichina larvae from hog cholera infected swine were freed from diaphragmatic tissue by artificial digestion. Washed and disinfected larvae transmitted hog cholera virus while the supernatant digestive fluid did not transmit the virus. Infectivity of the virus was lost when the larvae were transmitted through albino rats before administration to swine. Temperature elevation of the swine did not affect the viability of the trichinae.     

Separation of a Soluble Antigen and Infectious Particles of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Viruses and their Relationship to Hog Cholera

A soluble antigen present in infectious tissue culture fluids was separated from the infective virus particle by ultracentrifugation of two serologically related strains of bovine viral diarrhea viruses, NADL-MD and Oregon C24V.

Neutralizing antibodies against the two viruses were absent in four hog cholera antisera, but present in significant titer in the commercially prepared antiserum. Precipitin tests utilizing the agar double diffusion technique formed a single line of identity between the concentrated soluble antigen of both viruses and NADL-MD and hog cholera antisera. No lines were observed using concentrated virus pellet and noninfected BEK cell antigens or control SPF calf and swine sera.

     

Use of the agar diffusion precipitation test in the diagnosis of hog cholera

The application of the agar diffusion precipitation (ADP) test for diagnosing hog cholera was investigated. The test used as antigen, pancreatic tissue from 272 pigs that had been inoculated with hog cholera virus. The test was positive for 13.5% of the animals that were sick for 4 days or less, 40% of those sick for 5 days, and 77% of those sick for 6 days or more. The test was positive for 13.5% of all animals that had been vaccinated with crystal violet-glycerol hog cholera vaccine and had been sick for at least 6 days after challenge inoculation.     

Host immune responses against hog cholera virus in pigs treated with an ionized alkali mineral complex

To determine the immune responses in pigs to hog cholera virus after treatment with an ionized alkali mineral complex (IAMC), 40 healthy pigs (28-32 days old) from a commercial swine farm were purchased and housed into 4 groups (n=10 each). All pigs were vaccinated intramuscularly (1 ml) with an attenuated live hog cholera virus (HCV, LOM strain) at 28-32 days old and challenged with a virulent hog cholera virus at 8 weeks after vaccination. Each group was treated with PowerFeel sprayed diet as 0.05% (w/w) in a final concentration (T-1, n=10), a diet mixed with SuperFeed as 3% (w/w) in a final concentration (T-2, n=10), or a diluted PowerFeel solution (1:500, v/v) as drinking water (T-3, n=10), respectively. A group (n=10) served as a non-treated control. Proportions of expressing CD2+ and CD8+ cells increased significantly (p<, 0.05) at 8-week post-application. Mean antibody titers of each group against HCV gradually increased to higher levels after vaccination and with challenge of the virulent virus. In conclusion, the IAMC-treated diets can be helpful for the improvement of growth in pigs with proper vaccination program, while the IAMC-treated diets have no effects on the clinical protection against hog cholera.     

Laboratory Studies on the Transmission of Western Equine Encephalitis Virus by Saskatchewan Mosquitoes I. Culex tarsalis

A Saskatchewan strain of the mosquito Culex tarsalis, transmitted a local strain of western equine encephalitis virus from chick to chick, between four and 44 days after an infective blood meal. At incubation temperatures of 69 and 75°F, 120 transmissions occurred out of a possible 141, and all but seven of these were by single infected mosquitoes. At 75°F virus titers in individual mosquitoes were more uniform and transmission was more efficient, than at 69°F, although infection rates were similar at both temperatures. The minimum concentration of virus required to infect 50% of C.tarsalis was 10^2.5 intracerebral three-week old mouse LD₅₀ per 0.03 ml of donor blood. These findings provide direct evidence that C. tarsalis of Saskatchewan is a highly efficient vector of western equine encephalitis virus.     

规模化猪场繁殖障碍性疾病的血清学调查

运用ELISA、LAT和IHA对湖北省2006年度规模化猪场猪伪狂犬病(PR)、猪繁殖与呼吸综合征(PRRS)、猪乙型脑炎(JE)、猪细小病毒病(PP)、猪瘟(HC)、猪圆环病毒病(PCV-2)及弓形体病进行了血清学检测。分析调查结果发现PR、PRRS、JE、PP 、HC ５种疾病的免疫抗体平均阳性率分别为84.3%、78.3%、84.7%、58.0%、79.7%。非免PRRSV和PRV野毒的平均感染率分别为55.1%和17.7％,表明PRRSV感染情况比较严重。对58场次发病猪场的541份血清进行PRV、PRRSV、PCV-2混合感染情况的调查发现,规模化猪场中普遍存在二重或三重感染,从而使疾病更加复杂化,给防疫工作带来更大的困难。     

Tween 80: a marker for differentiation of hog cholera and bovine viral diarrhea viruses.

Markers for differentiating hog cholera and bovine viral diarrhea viruses were studied using Tween 80, chloroform, trichlorotrifluoroethane and tri (n-butyl) phosphate. Attenuated A and virulent Ames strains of hog cholera virus were employed. Moreover, the NADL PK-15 cell culture adopted strain and low cell culture passaged Purdue strain of bovine viral diarrhea virus were used. These viruses were reacted with 2,500 micrograms/ml of Tween 80 for one hour at 37 degrees C. When attenuated A and virulent Ames strains of hog cholera virus with titers greater than 10(6) and 10(5) plaque forming units respectively, were reacted with Tween 80 the titer of each strains was reduced by approximately 10(4) plaque forming units of virus. When either strain of bovine viral diarrhea virus was reacted with Tween 80, virus was not detected.     

Precipitation Reactions in Agar Between Swine Serum and Homologous Pancreas Extracts

Hyperimmune anti-hog cholera and nonimmune swine sera yielded approximately 50% more precipitation reactions in agar-gel diffusion tests with pancreas extracts from SPF noninfected swine than with extracts obtained from swine experimentally infected with virulent hog cholera virus. The pancreas-reacting property of swine serum was determined to be relatively heat stable, withstanding 68 C for 30 minutes.

Of various swine serum fractions tested, the only one that reacted with pancreas extracts contained gamma, beta and alpha-globulins. In the absence of alpha-globulin, precipitation reactions were not observed.

Sera of newborn SPF piglets, containing 50% alpha-2 globulin, formed more intense precipitation lines with swine pancreas extracts than were formed by the sera of their dams with the same extracts.

The pancreas-reacting activity of swine sera was completely removed by absorption with pancreatic tissue. This property was not removed by absorption with guinea pig kidney, or beef, swine or human erythrocytes.

Maceration of pancreatic tissue released reactive substances in a polydispersed form. This was demonstrated by the ability of almost all supernates and sediments from differential centrifugation of such preparations to form precipitation lines with swine sera. Reactive substances from swine pancreas were found to be relatively heat labile, being inactivated in one hour at 56C.

No evidence was obtained in this study to indicate that the observed precipitation reactions were related to hog cholera virus and its corresponding antibody. The reactions are believed to have resulted from the interaction of protein-related substances present in normal swine pancreas with a relatively heat stable component, possibly alpha-globulin, in swine serum.

     

不同批猪瘟活疫苗中猪瘟兔化弱毒E2基因主要抗原编码区序列分析

对12批猪瘟活疫苗中的猪瘟兔化弱毒病毒，以RT-PCR获得了E2基因的主要编码区的大约250bp大小的节片，在DNAstar上对这些节片的211pb进行了测序，观察到这些节片的编码序列高度同源性，其核苷酸序列和氨基酸序列有98.1%-100%相同，其中9批完全一致，结果表明猪瘟兔毒疫苗株的分子结构极其稳定。     

猪瘟兔化弱毒疫苗与我国近年猪瘟野毒的免疫保护相关性试验

２批猪瘟兔化毒睾丸细胞苗分别来自两家兽医生物药品厂，各分别免疫接种猪只，随后以５株猪瘟病毒野毒分别攻击，疫苗接种猪完全存活，对照猪完全死亡。此５株野毒分离自国内不同地区，并皆已经过细致的鉴定，以免疫荧光技术对猪扁桃体进行了活体检查，各对照猪材料上能在攻击后一周时出现病毒，而疫苗接种猪在整个观察期间未出现病毒，据此，显然可见猪瘟兔化毒细胞苗在预防国内猪瘟上极有效力     

An Evaluation of the Amylase and Haemolytic Tests for the Diagnosis of Hog Cholera

The amylase and haemolytic tests recommended for the diagnosis of hog cholera were used on normal swine, hog cholera-infected swine, hog cholera-immune swine and swine with some other virus diseases. The results obtained show that these tests do not appear to be sufficiently reliable for specific laboratory diagnosis.     

Stabilization of hog cholera virus by dimethyl sulfoxide.

The stability of hog cholera virus through five freeze-thaw cycles in the presence and absence of dimethyl sulfoxide was studied. In the absence of dimethyl sulfoxide the hog cholera virus titer was reduced 52% to 91% following successive freezing and thawing cycles. However, when dimethyl sulfoxide was added to the viral suspension the virus titer appeared to remain the same after the same number of freezing and thawing cycles.     

The Properties and Classification of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus

Examination of the C24V (Oregon) and MAC A (Ontario) strains of bovine viral diarrhea viruses have shown them to be ribonucleic acid containing viruses, with essential lipid and having compound helical symmetry with the diameter of the helix being in the neighbourhood of 180 A. Because of these properties it is suggested that the virus should be considered a member of the Myxovirus group. Hog cholera virus is related to bovine viral diarrhea virus by means of a “soluble” antigen, and also possesses essential lipid. It is therefore suggested that hog cholera virus represents still another veterinary myxovirus.     

Identification of Hog Cholera Viral Antigen by Immunofluorescence. Application as a Diagnostic and Assay Method

In the absence of detectable cytologic changes in hog cholera virus-infected tissue culture cells, hog cholera viral antigen was readily detected by immunofluorescence. The ability to detect hog cholera viral antigen by this method allowed for determination of infectivity titers and also for titration of homologous antibody. Immunofluorescence made possible the identification, in tissue culture, of hog cholera virus from blood, serum, and spleen extracts of experimentally infected swine. Further applications of this method and its limitations are being investigated.     

我国部分地区猪瘟病毒流行株的基因差异

采用 RT-PCR方法 ,从我国 1 0个省、市、自治区收集的 2 3个猪瘟病毒 ( CSFV)流行毒株中 ,扩增了CSFV E2基因中主要抗原位点编码区。对各扩增片段进行了序列测定 ,通过计算机分析构建了系统发生树 ,并确定了它们间的遗传相关性。结果表明 ,2 3个流行毒株中的 1 8株属基因 群 ,占 78.2 6%;另外 5个流行株与传统石门强毒、兔化弱毒株属基因 群 ,占 2 1 .74 %。两群间测序区的核酸同源性只有 78.90 %。此外 ,根据序列差异程度 ,将基因 群流行株分为 3个亚群 ,各基因群 CSFV在地域分布上未发现有明显的特征性。本研究初步揭示了我国较大范围内流行的 CSFV毒株与传统的石门强毒和疫苗用兔化弱毒在抗原基因上存在较大的差异 ,以及我国猪瘟病毒流行株在地域分布上的多样性     

An efficient method for the sanitary vitrification of bovine oocytes in straws

Background

At present, vitrification has been widely applied to humans, mice and farm animals. To improve the efficiency of vitrification in straw, bovine oocytes were used to test a new two-step vitrification method in this study.

Results

When in vitro matured oocytes were exposed to 20% ethylene glycol (EG20) for 5 min and 40% ethylene glycol (EG40) for 30 s, followed by treatment with 30% glycerol (Gly30), Gly40 or Gly50, a volume expansion was observed in Gly30 and Gly40 but not Gly50. This indicates that the intracellular osmotic pressure after a 30 s differs between EG40 and ranged between Gly40 (approximately 5.6 mol/L) and Gly50 (approximately 7.0 mol/L). Since oocytes are in EG40 just for only a short period of time (30 s) and at a lower temperature (4°C), we hypothesize that the main function of this step in to induce dehydration. Based on these results, we omitted the EG40 step, before oocytes were pretreated in EG20 for 5 min, exposed to pre-cooled (4°C) Gly50, for 30 s, and then dipped into liquid nitrogen. After warming, 81.1% of the oocytes survived, and the surviving oocytes developed into cleavage stage embryos (63.5%) or blastocysts (20.0%) after parthenogenetic activation.

Conclusions

These results demonstrate that in a two-step vitrification procedure, the permeability effect in the second step is not necessary. It is possible that the second step is only required to provide adequate osmotic pressure to condense the intracellular concentration of CPAs to a level required for successful vitrification.