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17 December 2018 Evaluation of Protective Efficacy When Combining Turkey Herpesvirus–Vector Vaccines
John R. Dunn, Kiril M. Dimitrov, Patti J. Miller, Maricarmen Garcia, Kelly Turner-Alston, Amy Brown, Angela Hartman
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Abstract

Turkey herpesvirus (HVT) is widely used as a vaccine against Marek's disease in chickens and recently as a vector for foreign genes from infectious bursal disease virus, Newcastle disease (ND) virus, infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) virus, and avian influenza virus. Advantages of HVT-vector vaccines are that the vaccines do not contain live respiratory viruses or live infectious bursal disease virus able to replicate and cause disease or embryo mortality, they can be administered at hatch or in ovo, and they are relatively insensitive to interference from maternally derived antibodies. As producers have tried to combine HVT-vector vaccines to protect against additional diseases, reports have indicated that applying two vectored vaccines using the same HVT vector is reported to reduce the efficacy of one or both vaccines. To confirm this interference, we evaluated commercial vaccines from multiple companies, including products with inserts designed to protect against ND, infectious ILT, and infectious bursal disease (IBD). Using a standard dosage, we found that the ILT product was most severely affected by the addition of other vaccines, as demonstrated by a significant increase in clinical signs, significant decrease in weight gain, and increase in quantity of challenge virus observed from tracheal swabs collected from Days 3–5 postchallenge. The ND and IBD products were also affected by the addition of other vaccines, although in most cases differences compared to vaccination with the vector alone were not statistically significant. This study demonstrates the importance of following manufacturer guidelines and the need for validating alternative strategies to benefit from the high level of protection offered by vector vaccines.

John R. Dunn, Kiril M. Dimitrov, Patti J. Miller, Maricarmen Garcia, Kelly Turner-Alston, Amy Brown, and Angela Hartman "Evaluation of Protective Efficacy When Combining Turkey Herpesvirus–Vector Vaccines," Avian Diseases 63(1), 75-83, (17 December 2018). https://doi.org/10.1637/11979-092818-Reg.1
Received: 2 October 2018; Accepted: 14 December 2018; Published: 17 December 2018
KEYWORDS
bursal disease
herpesvirus
HVT
laryngotracheitis
Newcastle disease
poultry
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