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. 1995 Jul;59(3):179–182.

Comparison of protection of experimentally challenged cattle vaccinated once or twice with a Pasteurella haemolytica bacterial extract vaccine.

J A Conlon 1, G F Gallo 1, P E Shewen 1, C Adlam 1
PMCID: PMC1263762  PMID: 8521349

Abstract

Three groups of calves (15-18 per group) were injected twice at a 3-week interval with 2 doses of phosphate buffered saline (PBS, CONTROL group), 2 doses of PRESPONSE, a Pasteurella haemolytica A1 bacterial extract vaccine (PRESPONSE-2 group) or 1 dose of PBS followed by a 2nd vaccination with 1 dose of PRESPONSE (PRESPONSE-1 group). Three weeks after the 2nd vaccination, the calves were challenged intratracheally with P. haemolytica A1. Calves were evaluated clinically for 3 days prior to challenge and for 5 days after challenge. Six days postchallenge, calves were either euthanized or sent to slaughter and the lungs were evaluated for percent pneumonic tissue. There was a significant effect of single or double application of vaccine on clinical scores (P = 0.0409). Percent pneumonic tissue at necropsy was significantly affected by vaccine group (P = 0.014). Calves in the CONTROL group had significantly higher percent pneumonic tissue after arcsine transformation (45.30%) than calves in any group receiving PRESPONSE, regardless of vaccination frequency (25.18% and 25.78%, for calves receiving 2 doses or 1 dose of PRESPONSE, respectively). Both serum toxin neutralizing and direct agglutinating titers were negatively correlated with percent pneumonic tissue. Most importantly, 1 dose of PRESPONSE was as efficient as 2 doses at eliciting a protective immune response. It is concluded that the presence of P. haemolytica as a natural commensal in the upper respiratory tract of the calf can effectively prime the animal, and allow the animal to respond in an anamnestic nature to only 1 dose of this vaccine.

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