Abstract
Vaccination with "imperfect" vaccines that prevent disease but not infection is strongly implicated in the observed increased virulence of Marek's disease virus (MDV) over the past six decades. The current "gold standard" vaccine, Rispens CVI988 (Rispens), has maintained efficacy despite use for five decades, raising the question of whether it too favours higher virulence MDVs. To investigate this, we studied the kinetics of Rispens CVI988 (Rispens) and two MDV strains of different virulence in 236 commercial ISA Brown chickens vaccinated with Rispens at hatch and challenged with vMDV isolate MPF57 or vvMDV isolate FT158 on day five. Each treatment was replicated in two isolators and from 7 to 56 days post infection (dpi) peripheral blood leucocytes (PBL), feather and dust samples were collected and subjected to differential quantitative PCR (qPCR). Rispens vaccination significantly reduced challenge MDV viral load in a sample-dependant manner with evidence of a differentially greater inhibitory effect on the less virulent MDV. Similarly, challenge with the more virulent MDV reduced the Rispens viral load in PBL. Rispens virus load displayed a distinctive pattern of viral load that was similar in PBL and feathers, but different...Continue Reading
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