Komáromi M, Szabó I
Csillag Agricultural Co-operative, Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary.
Acta Vet Hung. 2005;53(4):515-24. doi: 10.1556/AVet.53.2005.4.12.
Eradication of Aujeszky's disease from a large-scale pig farm by the 'test-and-cull' eradication procedure based on the use of gene-deleted vaccines and serological monitoring using gE ELISA is described. Aujeszky's disease free status was successfully achieved on a farrow-to-finish type farm characterised by three difficulties interfering with the success of eradication: (i) weaned (30-day-old) piglets remained in the farrowing house until 65 days of age; (ii) the farm did not use nursery rearing; (iii) fatteners were kept together with the breeding gilts. Thus, the immunisation programme had to be adjusted to the management technology used on the farm, and by regular serological monitoring it had to be periodically modified to make it suitable for attaining the goals. This meant that breeding animal candidates of a wide age range and kept in the same air space had to be provided with a continuously high-level immunity by regular vaccination sufficient even for rectifying potential human errors. The immunisation programme was designed by taking into consideration the disappearance of maternal immunity, and a strict vaccination programme was applied during the rearing of breeding gilts kept together with the fattening pigs. Frequent immunisation applied during the rearing of the own breeding animal replacements proved to be of decisive importance for the eradication of Aujeszky's disease from the entire herd. In addition to the accurate implementation of the vaccination programme, regular serological monitoring also made a major contribution to the success of eradication.
本文描述了通过基于使用基因缺失疫苗和采用gE ELISA进行血清学监测的“检测与淘汰”根除程序,从一个大型养猪场根除奥耶斯基氏病(伪狂犬病)的情况。在一个从产仔到育肥型的猪场成功实现了无奥耶斯基氏病状态,该猪场存在三个影响根除成功的困难:(i)断奶(30日龄)仔猪在产仔舍一直饲养到65日龄;(ii)该猪场不采用保育饲养;(iii)育肥猪与繁殖后备母猪混养。因此,免疫程序必须根据猪场使用的管理技术进行调整,并且通过定期血清学监测,必须定期对其进行修改以使其适合实现目标。这意味着对于年龄范围广泛且饲养在同一空间的种用动物候选者,必须通过定期接种疫苗提供持续的高水平免疫力,即使足以纠正潜在的人为失误。免疫程序的设计考虑了母源免疫力的消失情况,并且在与育肥猪混养的繁殖后备母猪饲养期间实施了严格的疫苗接种程序。事实证明,在培育自有繁殖动物替代群体期间频繁接种疫苗对于从整个猪群中根除奥耶斯基氏病具有决定性意义。除了准确实施疫苗接种程序外,定期血清学监测也对根除的成功做出了重大贡献。