Abstract
ABSTRACT Inclusion body hepatitis (IBH) is a metabolic disease affecting chickens, associated with different serotypes of fowl adenovirus (FAdV). Experimentally tested vaccines against IBH include several capsid-based subunit vaccines, but not the penton base protein. In the present study, specific pathogen-free chickens were vaccinated with recombinant penton base expressed from each of two different FAdV serotypes (FAdV-7 and FAdV-8b), followed by challenge with a virulent IBH-causing strain. No protection was observed with either vaccine, possibly due to the low immunogenicity of each protein and their inability to induce neutralizing antibodies in the host.
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