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Duration of the protective immunity against porcine parvovirus infection after vaccination of sows using a new bivalent parvovirus and erysipelas vaccine

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Swine
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Fontseca, M.; Muñoz, J.; Roca, M.; Camprodon, A.; March, R.; Sitjà, M.

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ESPHM Congress, 2014

The regime of vaccination (primary and revaccination schemes) effectively protects the animals from transplacental infection caused by PPV.

The aim of this study was to assess the duration of the protective immunity in naïve young breeding stock to porcine parvovirus conferred by a new inactivated bivalent vaccine against PPV and E. rhusiopathiae in pigs. The study design sought to test the “prime-boost immunization strategy” by means of an experimental infection in sows during the second gestation.

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