AUTHOR=Ren Qinghai , Li Lin , Pan Haochun , Wang Xiaobo , Gao Qingqing , Huan Changchao , Wang Jin , Zhang Wei , Jiang Luyao , Gao Song , Kai Yan , Chen Changhai TITLE=Same Dosages of rPRV/XJ5-gI−/gE−/TK− Prototype Vaccine or Bartha-K61 Vaccine Similarly Protects Growing Pigs Against Lethal Challenge of Emerging vPRV/XJ-5 Strain JOURNAL=Frontiers in Veterinary Science VOLUME=9 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2022.896689 DOI=10.3389/fvets.2022.896689 ISSN=2297-1769 ABSTRACT=

Variant pseudorabies viruses (vPRV) have constantly emerged in China since late 2011. In the present study, a 1 × 106.0 TCID50 per-animal dosage of a commercially available Bartha-K61 vaccine and an rPRV/XJ5-gI−/gE−/TK− prototype vaccine freshly extracted from the vPRV/XJ-5 at the same dose were administered to evaluate the immune effectiveness thereof on growing pigs to prevent lethal strikes caused by vPRV/XJ-5. The results suggest that the Bartha-K61 vaccine at a dose of 1 × 106.0 TCID50 per animal and the same dosage of the rPRV/XJ5-gI−/gE−/TK− prototype vaccine protected growing pigs against the lethal challenge of vPRV/XJ-5 strain with 100% survive rate. Furthermore, the outcome of the clinical score, virus shedding, weight gain, and viral loads in different pig tissues in these two groups demonstrates that either the Bartha-K61 vaccine or the rPRV/XJ5-gI−/gE−/TK− prototype vaccine at the same dose exhibited parallel efficacy in pigs against the lethal challenge with the XJ-5 strain of vPRV.