TUCKER, Ga. — Dr. Joseph Giambrone with the Poultry Science Department of Auburn University has completed a research product in which he created a new vaccine candidate for infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT), a disease of chickens.
The research was funded by the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association and the USPOULTRY Foundation with an endowing Foundation gift from Pilgrim's.
The new vaccine was created by inserting a gene from ILT virus into the B1 Newcastle disease vaccine, which is commonly used in broilers at one day of age.
The overall objective of the research project was to develop a recombinant vaccine. . .
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