Abstract
Quality control of biologicals for veterinary use includes certification of freedom from extraneous agents. Contamination of vaccines may originate from various materials used for production and during manufacturing process. Requirements for avian virus vaccines to demonstrate freedom of adventitious agents are stated in the European Pharmacopoeia and include monitoring for infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV). ILTV is an avian herpesvirus belonging to the alphaherpesvirus subfamily causing acute respiratory disease. To date the methods to detect ILTV contaminating biologicals consist of demonstration of antibody induction in chicken after immunization or virus cultivation in embryonated eggs. These methods are time consuming and laborious. Therefore, a specific, simple and sensitive in vitro polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the detection of ILTV contamination in avian virus vaccines was developed. Primers were designed to amplify part of the p32 gene. Four different ILTV vaccine strains could be unequivocally detected. The identity of the amplified fragment was confirmed by restriction endonuclease analysis.
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