Source: MEATINGPLACE, 10/11/18


A new production method has the potential to provide better protection to layers and breeders against a broader array of E. coli types and help minimize losses due to E. coli infection, according to research from the University of Georgia.

The researchers developed a method to create killed vaccines for E. coli that involves growing the bacteria in such a way that it can provide broad immunity against many E. coli types when incorporated into a killed vaccine, or bacterin.

The culture-based method can identify candidate E. coli strains for bacterin production and may also be applied to Salmonella and the production of a single bacterin for immunizing poultry against several Salmonella serogroups, wrote the authors.

The research was funded by USPOULTRY and the USPOULTRY Foundation, with an endowment from Koch Foods.
Read the abstract online on US POULTRY's website.

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