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Economic value of a New Zealand infectious bronchitis vaccine

Authors: Lohr JE
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 24, Issue 10, pp 241, Oct 1976
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: Avian, Poultry, Production animal
Subject Terms: Animal remedies/veterinary medicines, Immune system/immunology, Viral, Respiratory system, Disease/defect, Infectious disease, Vaccination
Article class: Correspondence

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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