| Literature DB >> 2548446 |
A Norqvist1, A Hagström, H Wolf-Watz.
Abstract
The fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum causes a lethal infection in rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri). Three different avirulent mutants, constructed by transposon insertion mutagenesis (VAN20 and VAN70) or as antibiotic-resistant mutants (VAN1000), were isolated by screening 200 individual isolated mutants for avirulence. When used as live vaccines, all three avirulent mutants were able to induce protective immunity against the homologous as well as a heterologous strain of V. anguillarum. When VAN1000 was used, protective immunity could be recorded 1 week after bath vaccination with 10(7) bacteria per ml of water for 30 min. A single-dose immunization was effective for at least 12 weeks. Western immunoblotting showed that strains of V. anguillarum have antigenic determinants in common with Aeromonas strains. Therefore, we tested and confirmed that VAN1000 also was able to induce protective immunity against challenge with Aeromonas salmonicida.Entities:
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Year: 1989 PMID: 2548446 PMCID: PMC202878 DOI: 10.1128/aem.55.6.1400-1405.1989
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Appl Environ Microbiol ISSN: 0099-2240 Impact factor: 4.792