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Economic value of a New Zealand infectious bronchitis vaccine

Economic value of a New Zealand infectious bronchitis vaccine
Peer reviewed
Lohr JE
New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 24, Issue 10, p 241, Oct 1976

Article class: Correspondence

Subject Terms: Animal remedies/veterinary medicines, Disease/defect, Immune system/immunology, Infectious disease, Respiratory system, Vaccination, Viral

Animal Type: Avian, Poultry, Production animal

Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Abstract

In the course of research on infectious bronchitis (IB) in chickens in New Zealand, one strain of IB virus was selected and attenuated as a local vaccine virus and produced in limited quantities at Massey University for trial purposes. Large-scale vaccination trials have now commenced with broiler flocks and will continue throughout the winter 1976. A summary of the results of all these trials will be the subject of a separate publication. However, in the meantime I should like to report the economic advantage that the vaccine has had on one particular farm in the North Island…

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