Recent vaccine related studies with economically important gastrointestinal nematode parasites of ruminants

• Published in: Tropical biomedicine Vol. 25; no. 1 Suppl; p. 50
• Main Author: Smith, W D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malaysia 01.02.2008
• Subjects: Animals; Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic - prevention & control; Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic - veterinary; Nematoda - immunology; Nematode Infections - prevention & control; Nematode Infections - veterinary; Parasitic Diseases, Animal - prevention & control; Ruminants; Vaccines - administration & dosage; Vaccines - immunology; Vaccines, Synthetic - administration & dosage; Vaccines, Synthetic - immunology

Although several native antigens of sufficient efficacy to be commercially useful have now been discovered for Haemonchus and Ostertagia, all will have to be synthesised artificially to be economically viable. Despite numerous attempts, recombinant DNA technology has not yet yielded the solution, bu...