Escherichia coli O157:H7 vaccine dose-effect in feedlot cattle.
A clinical trial conducted during the summer of 2006 evaluated effects of two- and three-dose regimens of an Escherichia coli O157 vaccine product on the probability of detecting E. coli O157:H7 in feces and colonization of the terminal rectum. The three-dose regimen significantly reduced the probability for cattle to shed E. coli O157:H7 in feces 65% compared to placebo-treated cattle. A dose-effect was demonstrated because a two-dose regimen of the vaccine product was intermediate in effect. These results are consistent with previous estimates of vaccine efficacy against fecal shedding, and agree with our previous finding that efficacy of two or three doses of this vaccine product exhibit a dose-response.
Moxley
Rodney A
RA
Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68583-0905, USA. rmoxley1@unl.edu
Smith
David R
DR
Luebbe
Matt
M
Erickson
Galen E
GE
Klopfenstein
Terry J
TJ
Rogan
Dragan
D
D000818:Animals; D057138:Bacterial Shedding; D016010:Binomial Distribution; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D004032:Diet; D004306:Dose-Response Relationship, Immunologic; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000382:microbiology; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000662:veterinary*; D019453:Escherichia coli O157 / Q000254:growth & development / Q000276:immunology* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D022361:Escherichia coli Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male; D032541:Mass Vaccination / Q000662:veterinary; D011336:Probability; D012007:Rectum / Q000382:microbiology; D012306:Risk; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D022361:Escherichia coli Vaccines