Abstract
Eighteen Missouri swine herds were serologically monitored to determine the efficiency of two methods for the control of pseudorabies. A serum neutralization test-and-removal procedure was effective in ten of ten herds using this method. Vaccination procedures were less reliable. Virus still circulated in five of eight vaccinated herds and a thorough epidemiological evaluation of herd status was impossible. Titers caused by vaccination could not be distinguished from those by natural infection. Vaccination also was carried out in three seronegative herds. Antipseudorabies virus titers in these herds ranged from negative to 1:16 two to three months postvaccination. A majority of the sows in these herds responded with low 1:2 or 1:4 titers following vaccination. A direct comparison of "test and removal" farms and farms that used vaccination was not possible because of the differences between the two groups of farms.
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