Discover the Season 1 Compilation from Meet the Expert Podcast
“What is the effect on antibiotics…no, no, I mean antibodies”
“The antibodies generated by some old vaccine strains have their neutralising capability reduced by the new PPV”
“We have an evolutionary process with this virus… evolutionary hot-spots on the surface of the virus, located at points in contact with the host’s immune system”
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“Immunevasion and recombination are not linked, but both are part of the same complex allowing some PRRS viruses to evade the normal controls on the farm”
“There are indications that some of the oldest vaccine strains are not providing full protection against emerging new genotypes of parvovirus”
“In our challenge studies with a highly virulent European strain, the pigs had quite good protection from a vaccine that is new in Europe”
“Peak titres can show 1,000 times more virus in blood serum with higher virulence strains”