Performance of a vaccine containing Anaplasma centrale and attenuated strains of Babesia bigemina e Babesia bovis against bovine babesioses and anaplasmosis.

Authors

  • Odilon Vidotto Universidade Estadual de Londrina
  • Roberta Lemos Freire Universidade Estadual de Londrina
  • Rosângela Zacharias Machado Universidade Estadual Paulista
  • Marco Antônio da Rocha Universidade Estadual de Londrina
  • Sérgio Silva da Silva Universidade Federal de Pelotas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1679-0359.1998v19n1p26

Keywords:

Cattle, Babesiosis, Anaplasmosis, Attenuated vaccine, Indirect ELISA.

Abstract

One hundred and thirty adult cattle imported from a tick-free region (Uruguay) were immunized in Brazil with a frozen trivalent vaccine containing Anaplasma centrale and attenuated Babesia bigemina and B. bovis. Thirty five days after the second dose of the vaccine, the animals ware challenged with virulent strains of the haemoparasites. At the day and 30 days after the challenge, it was taken serum samples from 28 animals, in order to evaluate the packed cell volume (PCV) and for serological tests. The results indicated that the animals resisted well the challenge with the virulent strains as showed by the absence of severe clinical symptoms during the observation period. The indirect ELISA test revealed serum antibodies against the three infeccious agents (B. bigemina - Overall Optical Density (OD) = 0.356, B. bovis = 0.320 and A. marginale - 0.295) in vaccineted animals, which raised significantly after challenging with virulent strains (B. bigemina - Overall OD = 0.664, B. bovis = 0.637and A. marginale = 0.549).

 

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Odilon Vidotto, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), Depto de Med. Vet. Preventiva, Campus Universitário, Caixa postal 6001. CEP 86051-970. Londrina – Paraná.

Roberta Lemos Freire, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), Depto de Med. Vet. Preventiva, Campus Universitário, Caixa postal 6001. CEP 86051-970. Londrina – Paraná.

 

Rosângela Zacharias Machado, Universidade Estadual Paulista

UNESP-Jabolicabal

Marco Antônio da Rocha, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

UEL - Depto de Zootecnia

Sérgio Silva da Silva, Universidade Federal de Pelotas

 

UFP – Universidade Federal de Pelotas.

Published

2010-01-12

How to Cite

Vidotto, O., Freire, R. L., Machado, R. Z., Rocha, M. A. da, & Silva, S. S. da. (2010). Performance of a vaccine containing Anaplasma centrale and attenuated strains of Babesia bigemina e Babesia bovis against bovine babesioses and anaplasmosis. Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 19(1), 26–30. https://doi.org/10.5433/1679-0359.1998v19n1p26

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