Challenge study on infectious bursal disease in chicks derived from vaccinated hens.
Presence and levels of maternal antibody (MA) in broiler chicks derived from hens vaccinated with a live infectious bursal disease (IBD) vaccine were investigated by a quantitative agar-gel precipitin test. At day old 100% of the chicks tested had MA; by 17 days of age it was present in only 10%. The mean MA level at day old was 337.5 UK units/ml but decreased to 6.3 UK units/ml at 17 days of age. Randomly selected chicks from the pool studied were challenged at weekly intervals from day old for 29 days with an IBD virus obtained from a natural outbreak. Subclinical and clinical disease were observed in chicks challenged at eight and 29 days of age respectively.
D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D002645:Chickens; D007243:Infectious bursal disease virus / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D011201:Poultry Diseases / Q000276:immunology*; D012087:Reoviridae / Q000276:immunology*; D012088:Reoviridae Infections / Q000276:immunology / Q000662:veterinary*; D014765:Viral Vaccines / Q000276:immunology*
D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D014765:Viral Vaccines