Lack of evidence for safe vaccination with the Muguga cocktail in Sudan.

نویسندگان

  • Dirk Geysen
  • Dirk Berkvens
چکیده

This statement is mainly based on the molecular analysis of a genomic locus p104 of Theileria parva, which is known to have only two alleles in all cattle populations analysed so far. The Muguga cocktail is a multicomponent vaccine containing three dominant genotypes (Muguga Kiambu and Serengeti transformed), covering the two-p104 cattle alleles. The unknown allele is probably an atypical amplification result, as the analysis was only based on Restricted Fragment Length Profiles. It is impossible to verify this, as no full amplicon lengths or sequence data are given.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Onderstepoort journal of veterinary research

دوره 80 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013