Evaluation of Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) ts-304 vaccine as a live attenuated vaccine in turkeys

•A GapA positive clone designated MG ts-304 can colonise turkeys.•MG ts-304 is a safe, efficacious vaccine that can protect turkeys against challenge with wild-type strain Ap3AS.•MG ts-304 strain has the potential to enable turkeys to be protected against MG infection for the first time. Mycoplasma...

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Veröffentlicht in:Vaccine 2018-04, Vol.36 (18), p.2487-2493
Hauptverfasser: Kanci, Anna, Wijesurendra, Dinidu S., Wawegama, Nadeeka K., Underwood, Gregory J., Noormohammadi, Amir H., Markham, Philip F., Browning, Glenn F.
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Zusammenfassung:•A GapA positive clone designated MG ts-304 can colonise turkeys.•MG ts-304 is a safe, efficacious vaccine that can protect turkeys against challenge with wild-type strain Ap3AS.•MG ts-304 strain has the potential to enable turkeys to be protected against MG infection for the first time. Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) is an important pathogen of poultry worldwide that causes chronic respiratory disease (CRD) in chickens and infectious sinusitis in turkeys. Vaxsafe MG (strain ts-11) is a live attenuated temperature sensitive vaccine that has been proven to be effective in controlling CRD in chickens, but it is not efficacious in turkeys. The gapA gene, which encodes a mature cytadhesin protein with a molecular weight of approximately 105 kDa, is not expressed in strain ts-11 because a 20 base pair reiterated sequence introduces a frame shift and causes premature truncation of the translated peptide. A GapA positive clone, MG ts-304, isolated from strain ts-11 has been shown to have enhanced efficacy in chickens. Here we describe studies we conducted to assess the safety and efficacy of the MG ts-304 vaccine candidate in turkeys. We found that MG ts-304 was able to colonise the trachea of 3-week-old turkeys and was safe, even at a tenfold overdose, inducing no adverse clinical signs of respiratory disease or significant gross lesions in the respiratory tract (air sacs or trachea), and was poorly transmissible to in-contact birds. We also showed that it was efficacious when administered to 3-week-old turkeys, inducing protective immunity against challenge with the M.gallisepticum wild-type strain Ap3AS. MG ts-304 is therefore a promising live attenuated vaccine candidate for use in turkeys.
ISSN:0264-410X
1873-2518
DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.02.117