DIVA Vaccines: A Brief Review on its Novel Facets for the Eradication of Infections of Livestock and Poultry.

DIVA vaccines also known as Differentiating Infected from Vaccinated Animals help in the differentiation between infected and vaccinated animals. The first DIVA vaccines were known as marker vaccines. The term DIVA vaccine was coined in 1999 and the accompanying diagnostic tests were developed by J.T. van Oirschot and colleagues at the Central Veterinary Institute in Lelystad, The Netherlands [1], [2].