Economic value of a New Zealand infectious bronchitis vaccine


Lohr JE
New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 24, Issue 10, p 241, Oct 1976
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 FrancisAbstract
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 IslandThe whole of the literary matter of the New Zealand Veterinary Journal is copyright Taylor and Francis, Downloading this article signifies agreement with the terms and conditions of electronic access.