Jpm. Langeveld et al., FULL PROTECTION IN MINK AGAINST MINK ENTERITIS VIRUS WITH NEW-GENERATION CANINE PARVOVIRUS VACCINES BASED ON SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE OR RECOMBINANT PROTEIN, Vaccine, 13(11), 1995, pp. 1033-1037
Two recently developed vaccines-one based on synthetic peptide and one
based on recombinant capsid protein-fully protected dogs against heav
y experimental canine parvovirus (CPV) infection. The high sequence ho
mology (>98%) and antigenic similarity between CPV and mink enteritis
virus (MEV), feline panleukopenia virus, and raccoon parvovirus, sugge
st that both vaccines could protect mink, cats and raccoons against th
ese respective host range variants. This was tested in mink and turned
out to be the case. The two vaccines were fully protective and as eff
ective as a conventional commercial vaccine based on inactivated virus
. Surprisingly, this protection was obtained after only a single injec
tion. Furthermore, the vaccinal close of 150 mu g of conjugated peptid
e or 3 mu g of recombinant VP2 particles per animal, are sufficiently
low to be cost-effective and applicable on a large scale.