Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.

Solvay Animal Health, Inc.

Other

Young S Lyoo

Xiang-Jin Meng

Patrick G Halbur

Prem S Paul

Melissa A Lum

The present invention provides a vaccine which protects pigs from a virus and/or an infectious agent causing a porcine respiratory and reproductive disease, a method of protecting a pig from a disease caused by a virus and/or an infectious agent which causes a respiratory and reproductive disease, a method of producing a vaccine against a virus and/or an infectious agent causing a porcine reproductive and respiratory disease, and a biologically pure sample of a virus and/or infectious agent associated with a porcine respiratory and reproductive disease, particularly the Iowa strain of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), and an isolated polynucleotide which is at least 90% homologous with a polynucleotide obtained from the genome of a virus and/or infectious agent which causes a porcine respiratory and reproductive disease.

Method of producing a vaccine which raises an immunological response against a virus causing a porcine respiratory and reproductive disease

Isolated porcine respiratory and reproductive virus, vaccines and

Highly virulent porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome viruses

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Ames, IA, United States of America

Young S Lyoo