TABLE 3.
Available veterinary live protozoal vaccines
Pathogen(s) | Host | Brand name(s) | Distributor(s) | Characteristic(s) | Referencea |
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Eimeria spp. | Poultry | Coccivac, Immucox, Paracox, Advent, Nobilis Cox ATM | Shering-Plough, Vetech Labs, Novus International, Intervet | Sporulated oocysts of several or all of the avian species | 164 |
Eimeria spp. | Poultry | Inovocox | Embrex | In ovo delivery using proprietary platform injection system | 164 |
E. tenella | Poultry | Livacox | BIOPHARM | Precocious and egg-passaged lines | 196 |
Theileria parva | Cattle | Centre for Ticks and Tick-borne Disease, Malawi | Infection followed by drug treatment | 23 | |
Theileria annulata and T. hirci | Cattle | Local veterinary institutes | Culture-derived schizonts | 165 | |
Toxoplasma gondii | Sheep | Ovilis Toxovax | Intervet | S48 strain with a lost ability to form cysts after passages in mice | 30 |
Babesia bovis and B. bigemina | Cattle | Local veterinary institutes | Infected blood from splenectomized calves | 48 |
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