标题：Experimental infection of weanling pigs with A/Swine influenza virus: 3. Immunity in piglets farrowed by antibody-bearing dams experimentally infected a year earlier
摘要：Pigs experimentally infected as weanlings with swine influenza virus, as described in previous papers, were bred from when mature. Attempts to isolate virus at parturition from the placenta and from different organs of some of the piglets immediately after birth gave negative results. Antibody levels were determined in the sows and remaining piglets at different times after birth, and the clinical course, immunity and antibody formation were studied in some of the piglets challenged with swine influenza virus 10 days after birth. The levels were found to be generally higher in the sows than those in their offspring. Specific antibodies were detected in piglets that had presumably not ingested colostrum, but the possibility of unobserved ingestion of colostrum could not be excluded. Colostrum-fed piglets had specific antibody in their sera; an increase in antibody titre occurred by the 10th day after birth, remained until the 20th day and decreased steadily to the 30th day. Colostrum-fed piglets receiving antibodies from immune dams were resistant to a challenge of virulent swine influenza virus, and did not respond with an antibody rise during a 30-day observation period after challenge. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (681K), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References . 771 772 773 774 775 776 777
