TUCKER, Ga. — A funded research project at the University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., has provided insight into failure of vaccine against infectious bronchitis, the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association and the USPOULTRY Foundation have announced.
Project #680: Understanding Arkansas IBV Vaccination Failures was conducted by Dr. Mark Jackwood and Dr. Brian Jordan of UGA's Department of Population Health.
The project that looked at the possible reasons for frequent vaccine failures when broilers are vaccinated with Arkansas infectious bronchitis vaccine. They found the vaccine contains a mixture of subpopulations of viruses, and one of the minor subpopulations is actually. . .