Vaccination of pregnant buffaloes with foot - and - mouth disease vaccine

ABSTRACT

Fifteen pregnant buffaloes at different periods of pregnancy and 5 non pregnant animals used as a control group were vaccinated with FMD vaccine and examined clinically for a week post-vaccination for any post-vaccinal reaction and the group of late stage of pregnancy was noticed after parturition for any stillbirths or abnormalities in their off springs. Serological analysis for serum neutralizing antibody titers were examined 15, 30 and 60 days post-vaccination for all animals. It is noticed that there were slight rise in the average body temperatures for 2 days postvaccination in the group of late stage of pregnancy and were normal in other groups. Also the average serum neutralizing antibody titers were lower in this group than in other groups especially few weeks before parturition. There were no abortion, stillbirths or any abnormalities in their off springs which denoted that FMD vaccine is safe for pregnant native breed buffaloes in Egypt