Source: Rita Jane Gabbett, MEATINGPLACE, 11/1/17


USPOULTRY and the USPOULTRY Foundation announce it completed a funded research project at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., in which researchers found that an antibody vaccine in broiler breeders failed to prevent kinky back in broilers.

The researchers, headed by Dr. Luke Borst and colleagues at the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University, developed an experimental vaccine to protect broilers against developing “kinky back.”

Kinky back is a bacterial disease that affects the spinal column of broilers and causes paralysis. The vaccine was used in broiler breeder hens to induce maternal antibody levels needed to provide protection to broilers. Although the vaccine induced antibody in the hens, the antibody failed to protect the broiler progeny of those hens against development of the disease.

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