Further experiments regarding the immunisation of cattle against tuberculosis

Present Status of Immunisation against Tuberculosis

The discovery of the tubercle bacillus by Robert Koch in 1882 and his classical demonstration, in 1891, of the effect of a second infection with tubercle bacilli in an already tuberculous guinea pig, which later came to be known as the ‘Koch phenomenon’, heralded scores of attempts to develop a specific immunising agent against tuberculosis, derived from the tubercle bacillus. The attempts were...

Immunisation of Adult Sheep Against Brucella Infection

Immunisation against meningococcus B.

www.thelancet.com Vol 382 September 7, 2013 857 in 2000 under circumstances of uncertainty about efficacy and low (but in that case rising) disease incidence. A decision to introduce the Novartis vaccine, which is not really a meningococcus B but actually a broader, generic meningococcal vaccine, and to give it to adolescents and young adults who have the highest carriage rates could have been ...

Immunisation against Whooping Cough

lives and visits are often infrequent. To this extent, therefore, I see the community hospital in populations in excess of 40 000 being of primary significance to the community in respect of acute diagnostic and surgical services at an appropriate level, and the geriatric and long-stay element as a part of the overall picture rather than the predominant feature. In populations less than this fi...

Efficacy of a Vaccine Formula against Tuberculosis in Cattle

"Test-and-slaughter" has been successful in industrialized countries to control and eradicate tuberculosis from cattle; however, this strategy is too expensive for developing nations, where the prevalence is especially high. Vaccination with the Calmette-Guérin (BCG) strain has been shown to protect against the development of lesions in vaccinated animals: mouse, cattle and wildlife species. In...