According to the bicistronic
DNA vaccine for
edwardsiella tarda
disease of
paralichthys olivaceus, provided by the invention, the bicistronic
DNA vaccine can remarkably induce Th1 type immune bias, enhance immune response of fish cells and improve the resistance to
intracellular bacterial infection, and has the advantages of being safe, efficient, easy to prepare, high in field popularization adaptability and the like. A fusion fragment of an
immunologic adjuvant IL-12 is used in the bicistronic
DNA vaccine, and the bicistronic DNA vaccine is constructed by connecting a
nucleic acid fragment of a
subunit 12p35 of which the coding
amino acid sequence is SEQ ID NO: 1 and a
nucleic acid fragment of a
subunit 12p40 of which the coding
amino acid sequence is SEQ ID NO: 3 through a flexible connecting
peptide joint. According to the bicistronic DNA vaccine disclosed by the invention, the synergistic expression of the OmpC
antigen and the IL-12
adjuvant is realized, the
immunogenicity is enhanced, and the problem of insufficient immune effect of the traditional DNA vaccine is solved; and the vaccine has no obvious toxic or
side effect on the fish body, does not depend on
antibiotics, is green and environment-friendly, and has a good industrialization prospect.