Abstract
Pigs were inoculated with a modified isolate of African swine fever virus (ASFV). Complement-fixing (CF) and agar gel diffusion precipitin (AGDP) antibodies could be detected in the serums of most pigs from 14-days postinoculation (DPI) until their immunity was challenged with virulent ASFV at 117 DPI.
Reductive cleavage with 2-mercaptoethanol showed that serums collected at 14 to 35 DPI contained 19S antibody, but that the 7S antibody was dominant at 35 and 117 DPI. This distribution of antibody was confirmed by sucrose-gradient centrifugation. Nearly all of the early serums also contained 7S antibodies which fixed complement and reacted in the AGDP test. Pigs whose serums contained both CF and AGDP antibodies at time of challenge failed to develop acute disease while pigs without CF antibodies were usually not protected.
Pigs surviving challenge with virulent virus showed no increase in antibody titers, or reversion to 19S antibody.
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