ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2013, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (12): 1961-1969.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2013.12.015

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Chimeric PCV1-2 Inactivation Vaccine Evaluated in Commercial Pigs for Its Protective Efficacy against PCV2 Infection

WANG Zheng-liang, ZHOU Jin-zhu, WANG Xiao-bo, LI Ji-zong, GAO Xing, YU Tian-qi, GAO Song*   

  1. (Key Laboratory of Avian Bioproducts Development of Ministry of Agriculture,Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China)
  • Received:2013-07-01 Online:2013-12-23 Published:2013-12-23

Abstract:

In this study, Dulac cells were electroporated with the recombinant plasmid pSK-dPCV1-2 constructed in our laboratory to obtain chimeric PCV1-2 virus by passage cultures. The inactivated vaccine of chimeric PCV1-2 virus emulsified with ISA 206 VG adjuvant was vaccinated commercial pigs to evaluate its protective efficacy against PCV2 infection. Twenty 42-day-old conventional pigs were randomly assigned to four groups of five pigs each, and other two pigs served as healthy control. The immune efficacy was evaluated by detecting indirect immunofluorescent assay IFAantibody titers, neutralizing antibody titers, growth parameters, viremia post-challenge, gross pathology and histopathology. By 35 days post-vaccination (DPV), all vaccinated pigs had seroconversion to antibody against PCV2 and developed high IFA antibody titers and neutralizing antibody titers at 1/15-1/20. In growth parameters, the average daily weight gain (ADWG) was increased in three immunized groups and the mock group, but there were no gains in challenge control group. Comparison of ADWG of vaccinated pigs with that of challenge pigs revealed statistically significant difference between them (P0.05). By 21 days post-challenge, gross and microscopic lesions of lymph nodes and lungs in non-vaccinated but challenged pigs were significantly more severe than those found in vaccinated groups. There were multinucleated giant cells, a number of eosinophilia and lymphocyte depletion in lymph nodes in non-vaccinated but challenged pigs. There were no multinucleated giant cells and less lymphocyte depletion in vaccinated pigs.The log10 of PCV2 viral copy loads detected in lymph nodes in non-vaccinated but challenged pigs were 5.566±0.432, in vaccinated pigs with 104.0, 105.0, 106.0 TCID50·mL1were 4.469±1.023, 4.434±0.7163.521±0.958, respectively. Comparison between pigs vaccinated with 105.0, 106.0 TCID50·mL1and challenging only pigs, the differences were significant (P0.05), but there were no clinical syndrome during the whole experiment period. The results illuminated that the inactivated chimeric PCV1-2 could induce protective immunity against PCV2b/1B/Jiangsu/Jingjiang/2012/11/08 infection effectively.

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