IMMUNE RESPONCE OF CHICKENS VACCINATED WITH NEWCASTLE DISEASE VACCINES USING DIFFERENT VACCINATION PROGRAMS.

Authors

1 Dept. of Poultry Diseases , Fac. of Vet. Med., Cairo Univ

2 Dept. of Poultry Disease, Fac. of vet. Med., Cairo Univ. (Beni-Suef)

Abstract

Six vaccination programs against Newcastle disease were evaluated. The criteria of evaluation were hacmagglutination-inhibition (HI) test for humoral immunity, lymphocyte transformation (LT) test for cell-mediated immunity, cillary activity (CA) test for local tracheal immunity and challenge test for overall vaccinal protection. The vaccines used are Hitchner B1, LaSota and inactivated oil-adjuvant vaccines. The early vaccination with Hitchner B, vaccine gave a considerable immune response but not as high as later vaccination. While the use of inactivated oil-emulsion vaccine with living vaccines, specially if simultaneously used, afforded a solid immunity particularly if used at 5 day-old under our experimental conditions.
 
 
 

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