Effect of vaccination of the dam on rotavirus infection in young calves |
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Authors: | M S McNulty E F Logan |
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Affiliation: | Milking and Mastitis Centre, AFRC Institute for Animal Disease Research, Compton, Newbury, Berkshire. |
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Abstract: | Vaccination of cows with a combined, inactivated, adjuvanted rotavirus and Escherichia coli vaccine resulted in increased neutralising antibody titres to rotavirus in serum and colostral whey. Evidence was obtained that vaccination resulted in a decreased incidence of rotavirus shedding and of abnormal faeces or diarrhoea in young calves fed colostrum and milk from the vaccinated dams. The E coli component of the vaccine was not evaluated because no natural challenge was evident. |
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