Simulation of maternal immunity by inoculation of immune yolk preparations into the yolk sac of 1-day-old chickens.

Avian Dis

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, Athens, Georgia 30605.

Published: February 1993

Yolk harvested from eggs laid by hens hyperimmunized with killed Newcastle disease virus (NDV) was inoculated into the yolk sac of 1-day-old specific-pathogen-free (SPF) chickens. Serum hemagglutination-inhibition antibody titers reached maximum levels 1 to 4 days after yolk inoculation and declined at a rate similar to that reported for naturally acquired maternal antibody. Expected levels of immune interference were observed when yolk-inoculated chickens were vaccinated with a conventional oil-emulsion NDV vaccine. These results show that yolk-sac inoculation with yolk antibody is a suitable approach for producing maternally immune chickens for laboratory studies.

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