The aim of this study was to evaluate the protection of three immunization programmes against infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) in broilers using two recombinant commercial vaccines. A total of 288 1-day-old Ross-308-line male birds were distributed in four experimental groups of 72 animals with three replicates of 24 birds per group. Group A was subcutaneously vaccinated at 1 day of age with a commercial recombinant fowlpox virus (FPV)-vectored vaccine expressing ILT virus (ILTV) glycoprotein B gene; Group B was vaccinated at day 14 of age with an inactivated vaccine by subcutaneous route and with the vaccine of Group A but applied via wing-web puncture; Group C was subcutaneously vaccinated at 1 day of age with HVT recombinant commercial vaccine expressing genes encoding for ILTV glycoproteins I and D; and Group D remained unvaccinated. All birds were challenged with ILTV pathogenic s...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the protection of three immunization programmes against infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) in broilers using two recombinant commercial vaccines. A total of 288 1-day-old Ross-308-line male birds were distributed in four experimental groups of 72 animals with three replicates of 24 birds per group. Group A was subcutaneously vaccinated at 1 day of age with a commercial recombinant fowlpox virus (FPV)-vectored vaccine expressing ILT virus (ILTV) glycoprotein B gene; Group B was vaccinated at day 14 of age with an inactivated vaccine by subcutaneous route and with the vaccine of Group A but applied via wing-web puncture; Group C was subcutaneously vaccinated at 1 day of age with HVT recombinant commercial vaccine expressing genes encoding for ILTV glycoproteins I and D; and Group D remained unvaccinated. All birds were challenged with ILTV pathogenic s...