Abstract
The aim of this study was to find out how efficiently pigs that are vaccinated with an attenuated porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) vaccine based on a virus from the Lelystad cluster are protected against a European wild-type strain from the same or another genetic cluster. Two experiments were performed. In each experiment, 5-week-old PRRSV-seronegative pigs were vaccinated intramuscularly with 10 4.5 TCID 50 of a commercial vaccine based on a European virus strain from the Lelystad cluster. Non-vaccinated pigs were included as controls. At 5, 9, 15, 20, 28, 35 and 42 days post vaccination (PV), broncho-alveolar lavage (BAL) fluids and blood were collected to determine vaccine virus quantities. Forty-nine days PV, pigs were challenged intranasally with 10 6.0 TCID 50 of a European wild-type strain, belonging either to the Lelystad cluster (98% nucleotide identity in ORF5 with vaccine strain) (experiment A) or to an Italian cluster (84% nucleotide identity in ORF5 with vaccine strain) (experiment B). At 5, 9, 15, 20 and 27 days post challenge (PC), BAL fluids and blood were collected to determine virus quantities. Vaccine virus was first detected in BAL fluids and blood at 5 days PV and reached highest quantities between 9 and 15 days PV. One pig was positive in its BAL fluid until 42 days PV. After challenge, virus was isolated from BAL fluids and blood of all non-vaccinated control pigs. All vaccinated pigs challenged with the Lelystad strain remained negative for virus, while virus was present in BAL fluids and blood of all vaccinated pigs after challenge with the Italian strain. Mean virus titres of the vaccinated pigs challenged with the Italian strain were significantly lower than those of the non-vaccinated control pigs ( P < 0.05) at 9, 15 and 20 days PC. Thus, the genetic diversity within European-type PRRSV may affect the efficacy of the current European-type vaccines.
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