Probiotics: multifarious oral vaccine against infectious traumas

In ovo Vaccine Against Infectious Bursal Disease

A recombinant attenuated vaccine against infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) was administered in ovo to 18-day-old embryos. The vaccine was genetically tailored to protect from challenges in the field against classic and variant strains of IBDV. The vaccine virus contains neutralizing epitopes from both classic (D78) and variant strain (GLS), and abrogates expression of the nonstructural pro...

Probiotics for infectious diarrhoea.

The modern view of probiotic therapy derives from the concept of a well functioning gut barrier and a normal balanced microbiota. The scientific conception of these host defences has changed; the gut barrier was seen primarily as a physical blockade to foreign antigen entry until its active role in shaping the immune response to luminal antigens was deciphered. Concomitantly, recent experimenta...

Probiotics and Oral Health

Probiotics utilize naturally occurring bacteria to confer a health benefits when administered in adequate amounts. A few conventional foods containing probiotics are yogurt, fermented and unfermented milk, soya beverages etc. Most often , they come from two groups of bacteria, Lactobacillus or Bifidobacterium. Probiotics have been extensively studied for their health promoting effects. Scientif...

Probiotics and Oral Health

The number of products containing probiotics, viable bacteria with proven health benefits, entering the market is increasing. Traditionally, probiotics have been associated with gut health, and most clinical interest has been focused on their use for prevention or treatment of gastrointestinal infections and diseases; however, during the last decade several investigators have also suggested the...

Use of Sodium Alginate Adjuvant in Preparation of a Formalin Killed Vaccine Against Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis