Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia: A rationale for the development of a mucosal sub-unit vaccine

Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia

Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) is one of the most important infectious diseases of cattle in Africa. Naïve herds can experience losses up to 80%, and many cattle that survive remain chronic carriers. These carriers may suffer from recurrent low-grade fever, loss of condition, and respiratory signs upon exercise, and might introduce the virus into uninfected herds. Although contagious ...

Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia

page 1 of 5 Importance Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) is one of the most important infectious diseases of cattle in Africa. Naïve herds can experience losses up to 80%, and many cattle that survive remain chronic carriers. These carriers may suffer from recurrent low-grade fever, loss of condition, and respiratory signs upon exercise. They can also introduce the virus into uninfected ...

Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia

Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) is one of the most important infectious diseases of cattle in Africa. Naïve herds can experience losses up to 80%, and many cattle that survive remain chronic carriers. These carriers may suffer from recurrent low-grade fever, loss of condition, and respiratory signs upon exercise, and might introduce the causative agent into uninfected herds. Although c...

Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP)

Serodiagnosis of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia by immunoblotting

Reagent production: selecting the strain, preparing the antigen and controlling quality The choice of the strain to use is an extremely critical point. The use of the B103 strain, the reference strain used by Regalla et al. in 1999 to develop the IBT method, is highly recommended and should be used to ensure consistent results among laboratories. The antigen is then prepared from a culture grow...