Vectored vaccines for avian influenza. From: Agricultural Research | Date: February 1, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 U.S. Government Printing Office. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Cases of avian influenza infections of poultry and humans have caused the world to be on alert for a pandemic. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) veterinary medical officer and laboratory director David Swayne and his team at the Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory in Athens, Georgia, are developing new viral-vectored vaccines to facilitate vaccine efficiency against avian influenza. A vector is a biological carrier of genes of another pathogen.

Vectors such as the turkey herpesvirus, infectious laryngotracheitis virus, and adenoviruses are being used and could allow mass ...

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