Estudo comparativo de vacina anti-rábica de uso bovino

Abstract

Four comparable groups were constituted, of 14 bovines each. One was kept as a control group and the others were inoculated with Formidogel, Flury and modified Fuenzalida anti-rabies vaccines, respectively

After eight months, all the animals in the experiment were submitted to the "challenge", with the following results in mortality rates: control group, 12/13 (92.3 per cent); group inoculated with the Fuenzalida vaccine, 13/14 (92.9 per cent); group inoculated with the Flury vaccine, 6/13 (46.2 per cent); group inoculated with the Formidogel vaccine, 3/13 (23.1 per cent). According to this experiment, the Fuenzalida vaccine did not give satisfactory results with bovines; account must be taken of the modification introduced in its preparation

A statistical analysis of the results revealed that, at the 5 per cent rejection level adopted:

1) the mortality rate for the group inoculated with the Formidogel vaccine did not differ significantly from that of the group receiving the Flury vaccine;

2) the mortality rate for the group that received the Formidogel vaccine and for the group inoculated with the Flury vaccine was significantly lower than either that of the group inoculated with the modified Fuenzalida vaccine or that of the control group;

3) the mortality rate observed in the group inoculated with the modified Fuenzalida vaccine did not differ significantly from that of the group ...(AU)