503 results about "Respiratory syndrome virus" patented technology

Infectious cDNA clones of North American Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) are provided. Further provided are cDNA clones comprising genetic mutations. Also provided are vaccines comprising cDNAs, including genetically and immunologically marked vaccines for North American PRRSV.

The present invention provides a vaccine which protects pigs from a virus and/or an infectious agent causing a porcine respiratory and reproductive disease, a method of protecting a pig from a disease caused by a virus and/or an infectious agent which causes a respiratory and reproductive disease, a method of producing a vaccine against a virus and/or an infectious agent causing a porcine reproductive and respiratory disease, and a biologically pure sample of a virus and/or infectious agent associated with a porcine respiratory and reproductive disease, particularly the Iowa strain of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), and an isolated polynucleotide which is at least 90% homologous with a polynucleotide obtained from the genome of a virus and/or infectious agent which causes a porcine respiratory and reproductive disease.

The application relates to a domesticated porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus low virulent strain (JXA1-R strain), immunogenicity substance containing the viral strain, and a porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus low virulent live vaccine developed through making use of the strain. The live vaccine is used to prevent the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, in particular the highly pathogenic blue-ear porcine disease.

The present invention provides a purified preparation containing, for example, at least one polypeptide selected from the group consisting of proteins encoded by one or more open reading frames (ORF's) of an Iowa strain of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), antigenic regions of such proteins which are at least 5 amino acids in length and which effectively protect a porcine host against a subsequent challenge with a PRRSV isolate, and combinations thereof in which amino acids non-essential for antigenicity may be conservatively substituted. The present invention also concerns a vaccine comprising an effective amount of such a protein; antibodies which specifically bind to such a protein; methods of producing the same; and methods of protecting a pig against a PRRSV, treating a pig infected by a PRRSV, and detecting PRRSV in a pig.

The invention discloses a virulent strain HuN4 for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, and an attenuated vaccine strain HuN4-F112 (the collection number of microorganism: CGMCC No.2484) attenuated because of virulent strain HuN4 passage, and also discloses the application of the attenuated vaccine strain in preventing or curing the highly pathogenic blue-ear disease, which belongs to the biomedical field. The attenuated vaccine strain HuN4-F112 can be prepared into single-vaccine or combined strain (live vaccine or inactivated vaccine), can effectively prevent or cure the highly pathogenic blue-ear disease, and also can be prepared into diagnostic reagent for the highly pathogenic blue-ear disease diagnosis. The attenuated vaccine strain HuN4-F112 of the invention has the advantages of good security and high protection efficiency.

The invention provides a porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus double-antibody sandwich ELISA kit. The kit comprises: an elisa plate coated with PRRSV N protein monoclonal antibody, an enzyme labeling PRRSV N protein monoclonal antibody, lysis solution and the like. A capture antibody and a detection antibody are respectively aimed at antigenic determinants with different N proteins.The kit provides a reliable means for quick detection of clinical PRRSV antigen. The kit can detects that blood serum only contains 0.2 TCID50 highly pathogenic PRRSV JXwn06 strain (non-highly pathogenic strain can be also be detected). Through detecting clinically collected 80 blood serum samples, compared with RT-PCR result, the specificity of the method is 88 percent, the sensitiveness is 90 percent and the coincidence rate of the specificity and the sensitiveness are 88.8 percent. The kit is convenient for operation, low in use cost, good repetitiveness and suitable for wide promotion andapplication.

The present invention provides isolated European-like porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome viruses, polynucleotides, and polypeptides. The present invention also provides methods for making antibodies to the viruses and polypeptides, methods for detecting porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome viruses, immunogenic compositions, and methods for treating a porcine subject at risk of infection by, or displaying symptoms of, a porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus infection.

The invention discloses a colloidal gold immunochromatographic test strip for detecting wild-type classical swine fever virus, which consists of water absorbent paper (1), a cellulose nitrate membrane (2), a colloidal gold pad (3), a sample pad (4) and a support (5), wherein the cellulose nitrate membrane contains a detection line which is formed by coating monoclonal antibody HQ06 of anti-classical swine fever virus E2 protein and a quality control line which is formed by coating rabbit anti-mouse IgG antibody; and the colloidal gold pad is combined with colloidal gold-labeled monoclonal antibody 6E10 of the anti-classical swine fever virus E2 protein. The test strip does not react with C-strain of classical swine fever virus, bovine viral diarrhea virus, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus, transmissible gastroenteritis virus, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, porcine rotavirus, pseudorabies virus, porcine parvovirus and porcine circovirus type 2, and can accurately and sensitively identify the wild-type classical swine fever virus, thereby having good specificity, sensitivity and repeatability.

The invention discloses a genetic engineering marked attenuated vaccine strain of a porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV). The attenuated vaccine strain comprises a genomic nucleic acid of a porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus attenuated vaccine strain HuN4-F112; the HuN4-F112 genome includes a mutation in a genetic region for coding an Nsp2 protein, and the mutation is as follows: a nucleotide sequence for coding a Newcastle disease virus NP protein is inserted to a lacking region of a nucleotide sequence for coding 480-532-site amino acid of the Nsp2 protein; or the nucleotide sequence for coding the Newcastle disease virus NP protein is inserted to the lacking region of a nucleotide sequence for coding 508-532-site amino acid of the Nsp2 protein. The invention also discloses an application of the genetic engineering marked attenuated vaccine strain. The genetic engineering marked attenuated vaccine strain of the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus provided by the invention not only can provide completely safe immune protection to resist high-pathogenicity PRRSV after the porcine is immunized, but also can effectively distinguish the immunized porcine of the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome vaccine with the naturally infected porcine of the field virus.

What is described is a recombinant vector, such as a virus; for instance, a poxvirus, such as avipox virus, containing foreign DNA from porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus. What are also described are immunological compositions containing the recombinant poxvirus for inducing an immunological response in a host animal to which the immunological composition is administered. Also described are methods of treating or preventing disease caused by porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus by administering the immunological compositions of the invention to an animal in need of treatment or susceptible to infection by porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus.

The invention relates to a pig breeding and breathing complex virus (PPRSV) and pig 2-type loop virus (PCV 2) series gene recombination adenovirus and vaccine in the field of high and new biotechnology. It uses PCR technology to clone the Cap protein gene into the plasmid carrier pShuttle-CMV-GP5 by open type reading rule and transforms tobacillus coli BJ5183strain with cage carrier pAdEasy-1 to capture the recombination plasmid; it uses recombination plasmid HEK293-A cell to capture recombination adenovirus and purifies it to express the recombination adenovirus rAd-Cap-GP5 of PRRSV GP5protein and PCV-2 Cap protein.

The present invention relates to pig reproduction and respiratory syndrome virus recombined adenovirus and vaccine, and belongs to the field of biological high-tech. Through RT-PCR process to proliferate whole PRRSV GP5 sequence, cloning the gene sequence to the shuttle vector pShuttle-CMV of adenovirus carrier system, cotransforming colibacillus BJ5183 strain together with the skeleton vector of adenovirus carrier system to obtain recombinant plasmid, transfecting HEK293-A cell to obtain recombinant adenovirus and plaque purification, and RT-PCR and indirect immunofluorescence technique inspection, the recombinant adenovirus rAd-GP5 expressing PRRSV GP5 protein is constituted. The recombinant adenovirus can set ahead the expression of PRRSV GP5 protein and raise the expression amount to simulate the immune protecting reaction of body effectively.

The invention relates generally to the field of virology. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods for determining the permissiveness of a cell for a virus that is a member of the family Arteriviridae or Coronaviridae or Asfarviridae, in particular for Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV). The invention further provides methods and compositions related to the generation of host cells permissive for a virus that is a member of the family Arteriviridae or Coronaviridae or Asfarviridae, in particular for Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV). Methods of using said cells thus identified or thus generated, in preparing a culture of a virus that is a member of the family Arteriviridae or Coronaviridae or Asfarviridae, as well as the use of said virus for the purpose of vaccine production or diagnosis, are also provide by the present invention.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (“SARS”) is a human respiratory disease of recent origin, widespread infectivity, recurring incidence, and significant mortality. Although there is abundant evidence suggesting that the coronavirus responsible for the disease (“SARS-CoV”) evolves during an outbreak, there is currently little data on the earliest strains of this coronavirus. The present invention is directed to the characterization of the genomic RNA sequences of these earliest SARS coronaviruses, to the identification of nucleotide positions within the SARS-CoV genomic RNA that are characteristic of the different evolutionary stages of the coronavirus, to kits based on these positions for use in diagnosis of the disease in patients, and for the development of vaccines to the disease based on the lowered virulence and contagiousness of these earliest strains of SARS-CoV.

Methods of reducing the severity of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) infections, as well as, methods of preventing such infections are provided. The methods provide for the age-based innoculation of swine with PRRS antigen, preferably Ingelvac® ATP.

The invention discloses an anti-porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus monoclonal antibody and application. The invention provides an anti-porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus monoclonal antibody hybridoma cell strain 3C3 with collection number of CGMCC No. 4109. The invention also provides the anti-porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus monoclonal antibody generated by the anti-porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus monoclonal antibody hybridoma cell strain 3C3 with collection number of CGMCC No. 4109. An experiment of the invention proves that: a purified PRRSV JXA1 strain is used for immunizing BALB/c mice, one hybridoma cell strain which can stably secrete PRRSV monoclonal antibodies is screened by utilizing the hybridoma technology and the biological characteristic identification is performed on the hybridoma cell strain so as to lay the foundation for further establishing a specific, sensitive and rapid PRRSV detection method.

This invention provides kits, devices, and methods for the detection of antibodies that recognize one or more proteins and/or antigens from porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV). The antibodies may be in a biological fluid of a PRRSV infected or at risk subject. The invention may be advantageously applied to both the diagnosis and prevention of PRRSV infection.

The invention discloses a multiplex RT-PCR detection kit for a porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus. The kit comprises two pairs of primers used for amplification of genes of an American porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus and a European porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus; and the invention provides an application method for the detection kit. The invention has the following beneficial effects: the multiplex RT-PCR detection kit for the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus provided by the invention is fast compared with classical virus isolation, single RT-PCR and serum typing methods and can conveniently identify and distinguish any one belonging to American and European porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome viruses in one shot so as to facilitate timely and fast responses to epidemic disease situations, regions and environments and implementation of correct treatment in shortest time; meanwhile, the Trizol extraction method for extraction of the whole genome RNA in the invention has the characteristics of rapidness, simpleness, low cost and usage of a small amount of desired reagents, is especially applicable to extraction of small samples and has wide market application prospects.

The invention discloses a triple fluorescent RT-PCR (Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction) detection reagent for African swine fever viruses, swine fever viruses and respiratory syndrome viruses and a preparation method and application thereof. Three sets of specific primers and Taqman probes as well as positive controls specific to African swine fever virus CP530R genes, swine fever virus 5 minute-UTR genes and swine respiratory syndrome virus NSP2 genes respectively are designed and synthesized, and a rapid, easy and convenient triple fluorescent RT-PCR detection system with high specificity and high sensitivity is established by using the three sets of primers and probes, so that nucleic acids of the African swine fever viruses, the swine fever viruses and the respiratory syndrome viruses can be detected synchronously from a detected sample within 3-4 hours in a rapid, accurate, specific, safe, easy and convenient way. The detection reagent can be applied to synchronous detection of the nucleic acids of trace African swine fever viruses, swine fever viruses and respiratory syndrome viruses in hogs and relevant samples thereof.