Intraperitoneal vaccination of rams

Authors: Wallace GV, Quinlivan TD
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 27, Issue 5, pp 105, May 1979
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: Livestock, Production animal, Ruminant, Sheep
Subject Terms: Animal remedies/veterinary medicines, Bacterial, Biosecurity, Disease/defect, Infectious disease, Disease control/eradication, Epidemiology, Notifiable organisms/exotic disease, Reproduction, Immune system/immunology, Vaccination, Zoonosis, Public health
Article class: Correspondence

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Abstract: A recent issue of the Animal Health Division`s excellent publication Surveillance (1978 No.5 Spring), reported that the Palmerston North Animal Health Laboratory had encountered a case involving 40 two-year-old rams, the majority of which had intramuscular perirenal abscesses. It was reported that these abscesses were due to vaccination with a single dose of Br. ovis vaccine, administered by the intraperitoneal route. Approximately half of the report treated the reader to a dissertation on the authors views on the technique, which one can only assume are derived from ignorance of both the correct technique for intraperitoneal injections in sheep and the effectiveness of this type of administration…

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