FSQ015
Novel multivalent vaccines for avian health
Éva Nagy, University of Guelph

Funding: $276,750 (CPRC $96,750, NSERC/AAFC $180,000)
Start date: December 2006
Expected end: November 2009
Interim report received: September 2007
Final report received:
Status: in progress

Background:
Infectious diseases caused by a host of pathogens constantly threaten the poultry industry. As part of the arsenal of prevention and control measures, there is a need for more effective vaccines. The goal of this research to create a biological platform for the production of effective vaccines that protect flocks from more than one pathogen at a time and, when used to infect birds, can be distinguished from that of naturally occurring viral infection in the field. This is an ambitious project that endeavours to use molecular biology to create a vaccine vector based on the fowl adenovirus (FadV-9) that can deliver genes of interest (such as those coding for pathogenic virus antigens) to the bird thereby eliciting an immune response against those antigens.

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