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AQUACULTURE
Volume 278, Issue 1-4, Pages 22-26Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2008.03.015
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turbot; Philasterides dicentrarchi; vaccine; humoral response; parasites; fish pathogens
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Philasterides dicentrarchi is a scuticociliate parasite that causes important mortalities in cultured turbot and therefore considerable economic losses. In the present study, we applied for the first time a factorial experimental design to optimize the formulation of an inactivated anti-P dicentrarchi vaccine on the basis of. three of its main components: antigenic dose, concentration of inactivating agent and proportion of adjuvant in the emulsion, and determined the effect of each factor on protection against the parasite and on antibody production. We found that concentration of antigen was the only one of the three factors considered that had a significant effect on the level of specific serum antibodies. In addition, we showed a statistically significant relationship between the level of antibodies and the mean time of survival of the vaccinated fish. The vaccine formulation containing 10(6) trophozoites/ml, 0.2% formalin and 50% adjuvant generated the longest mean time of survival, 100% protection and the highest levels of antibodies in the vaccinated fish. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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