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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2009
Jackson L. Mcreynolds, Bryan, TX (US);
Suresh Pillai, College Station, TX (US);
Palmy Rose Rajan Jesudhasan, College Station, TX (US);
Martha Lucia Cepeda Hernandez, Waltham, MA (US);
Jackson L. McReynolds, Bryan, TX (US);
Suresh Pillai, College Station, TX (US);
Palmy Rose Rajan Jesudhasan, College Station, TX (US);
Martha Lucia Cepeda Hernandez, Waltham, MA (US);
The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
Populations ofin animals may be substantially reduced by treatment with a vaccine composition which has been produced by exposing whole, intact cells of aspecies to irradiation with an electron beam under conditions effective to kill the cells. The electron beam irradiated cells ofare effective for stimulating protective immune responses in the animals against the. Induction of these immune responses significantly reduces or eliminates the colonization of the animal by the, and consequently reduces or eliminates the shedding ofin the feces of the animals.