Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (5): 2312-2324.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2025.05.029

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Establishment of Mice Model Infected by Bovine Mannheimia haemolytica and the Immunogenicity of Inactivated Vaccine

JIA Chaoying1(), ZHANG Huawei2, LUO Xiuxin2, LIU Qingyun1, WANG Xiangru1,*()   

  1. 1. College of Animal Science and Technology, College of Animal Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
    2. Wuhan Keqian Biology Co., Ltd, Wuhan 430000, China
  • Received:2024-06-24 Online:2025-05-23 Published:2025-05-27
  • Contact: WANG Xiangru E-mail:13752871611@163.com;wangxr228@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Abstract:

Mannheimia haemolytica (Mh) is one of the most important pathogens causing bovine respiratory disease (BRD), which seriously affects the healthy breeding and food safety of cattle. In this study, nasal swabs of calves with respiratory symptoms such as fever and runny nose were collected for bacterial isolation and culture, and serotype identification, 16S rRNA sequencing analysis and PCR typing of the isolates were performed. The drug-resistant phenotype of the isolates to 15 antibiotics was tested, the possibility of mice as Mh replacement animal infection models was evaluated by mortality and pathological changes of the mice. A mouse bacterial infection model was constructed, and the pathogenicity and immunogenicity of the isolates were evaluated. The results showed that the purified strain was identified as Mh and named KQ-Mh-1.The strain was resistant to amicacin, melocillin, gentamicin, streptomycin, amoxicillin and sulfamethoxazole, and showed high sensitivity to cefotaxime, norfloxacin, cefoperazone, ciprofloxacin, polymyxin, neomycin and doxycycline. The median lethal dose (LD50) of KQ-Mh-1 on BALB/c mice was 7.29×109 CFU ·mL-1, and the infected mice all showed severe hemorrhages in the lung and spleen. KQ-Mh-1 was prepared into inactivated vaccines with different antigen content to evaluate its immunogenicity, in which the inactivated vaccine with high antigen content (2.5×1010 CFU ·mL-1) had a 70% protection rate against KQ-Mh-1 after immunizing mice. In this study, a Mh strain that can cause bovine BRD was successfully isolated and its biological characteristics, pathogenicity and immunogenicity were investigated, which provided a good vaccine candidate strain for the research and development of bovine BRD vaccine.

Key words: bovine respiratory disease, Mannheimia haemolytica, mice model, inactivated vaccine

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