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The invention relates to a gene deletion attenuated African swine fever virus as a vaccine and the vaccine, and a construction method thereof. An African swine fever Chinese epidemic strain Pig/CN/HLJ/2018 is adopted, a virulence gene of the African swine fever virus is deleted by a genetic engineering technology, and the gene deletion virus of MGF360-505R deletion and joint deletion of CD2V and MGF360-505R is obtained. Experiments show that the two virus strains can provide 100% immune protection against the African swine fever Chinese epidemic virulent strains, can be used as vaccines for safe and effective prevention and control of African swine fever in China, and have great social value.

Compositions, kits and methods for boosting, or for priming and boosting, high titer broadly neutralizing cross-clade antibody responses focused on single HIV-1 neutralizing epitopes are disclosed. gp120 DNA plasmids comprising HIV env genes are used to prime the antibody response. Primed subjects are immunized with recombinant fusion proteins that comprise a “carrier” protein fusion partner, preferably a truncated form of the MuLV gp70 Env protein, and a desired HIV neutralizing epitopes. Preferred epitopes are epitopes of V3 from one or more HIV clades. Immune sera from such immunized subjects neutralized primary isolates from virus strains heterologous to those from which the immunogens were constructed. Neutralizing activity was primarily due to V3-specific antibodies and cross-clade neutralizing Abs were present. This approach results in more potent and broader neutralizing antibody levels, a result of “immunofocusing” the humoral immune response on neutralizing epitopes such as V3.

The present invention relates to monovalent influenza vaccine formulations and vaccination regimes for immunising against influenza disease, their use in medicine, in particular their use in augmenting immune responses to various antigens, and to methods of preparation. In particular, the invention relates to monovalent influenza immunogenic compositions comprising an influenza antigen or antigenic preparation thereof from an influenza virus strain being associated with a pandemic outbreak or having the potential to be associated with a pandemic outbreak, in combination with an oil-in-water emulsion adjuvant comprising a metabolisable oil, a sterol and/or a tocopherol such as alpha tocopherol, and an emulsifying agent.

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic (SERS) systems and methods for detecting biomolecules of interest, such as a virus, bacterium, or other infectious agent, are provided. A spectroscopic assay based on surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) using a silver nanorod array substrate fabricated by oblique angle deposition has been developed that allows for rapid detection of trace levels of viruses or bacteria with a high degree of sensitivity and specificity. This novel and improved SERS assay can detect minor spectral differences within strains of a single virus type such as respiratory syncytial virus or influenza virus in the presence of biological media. The method provides rapid diagnostics for direct molecular and structural characterization of virus strains and virus gene deletion mutants generating reproducible viral spectra without viral manipulation.

The present invention relates to a combination of a priming composition and a boosting composition to prime and boost an immune response in a subject whereby the immune response resulting from administration of the priming composition to the subject is capable of being boosted. The priming composition comprises a DNA plasmid that comprises a nucleic acid molecule encoding an influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) or an epitope-bearing domain thereof. The boosting composition comprises an influenza vaccine. The present invention also relates to a method to use such a combination to vaccinate a subject and to enhance an immune response to an influenza vaccine administered alone. Such a combination can elicit an immune response not only against at least one influenza virus strain from which the priming composition or boosting composition is derived but also to at least one heterologous influenza virus strain.

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.

A vaccine comprising an immunologically effective amount of recombinant modified vaccinia Ankara (rMVA) virus which is genetically stable after serial passage and produced by a) constructing a transfer plasmid vector comprising a modified H5 (mH5) promoter operably linked to a DNA sequence encoding a heterologous foreign protein antigen, wherein the expression of said DNA sequence is under the control of the mH5 promoter; b) generating rMVA virus by transfecting one or more plasmid vectors obtained from step a) into wild type MVA virus; c) identifying rMVA virus expressing one or more heterologous foreign protein antigens using one or more selection methods for serial passage; d) conducting serial passage; e) expanding an rMVA virus strain identified by step d); and f) purifying the rMVA viruses from step e) to form the vaccine. One embodiment is directed to a fusion cytomegalovirus (CMV) protein antigen comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding two or more antigenic portions of Immediate-Early Gene-1 or Immediate-Early Gene-2 (IEfusion), wherein the antigenic portions elicit an immune response when expressed by a vaccine.

The present invention discloses a construction of three-gene defected recombinant pseudorabies virus (PrV) strain, vaccine prepared by said strain, method for constructing said strain and method for preparing said vaccine. The described recombinant pseudorabies virus strain defects genes of TK.gE ang gI, and contains no exogenous gene. The described vacine belongs to the freeze-dried live vaccine made up by virus liquid containing said invention and gelatin. Said invented live vaccine can be inoculated on the piglet, slaughter pig and sow with farrow, and can obtain obious immune effect. Said vaccine has good biological safety, and can be used for preventing and curing pseudorabies.

The present invention belong to veterinary new biological medicine technology field, relates to porcine circovirus type II (PCV2) inactivated vaccine of and method for preparing same. The vaccine used seed virus is porcine circovirus type II DBN-SX07 strain, the preservation number is CGMCC No 3064, the virus strain is used as antigen preparation of inactivation by alkyl agents and emulsification by adding oil adjuvant. Using the invention provided PCV2 inactivated vaccine to immune pig can generate an uniform and effective protection force-shorting PCV2 infection windows period obviously, and prolong immune duration-reducing times of booster immunization.

The invention discloses a kit for detecting pig pseudorabies virus antibodies and a block enzyme-linked immuno sorbent assay (ELISA) method. The kit for detecting pig pseudorabies virus antibodies comprises pig pseudorabies virus monoclonal antibodies which are labelled by horseradish peroxidase, wherein the pig pseudorabies virus monoclonal antibodies are monoclonal antibodies obtained by pig pseudorabies viruses as immunogens and the pig pseudorabies viruses are pseudorabies virus strain Ea. The kit for detecting pig pseudorabies virus antibodies also comprises an enzyme label plate, a sample diluent, negative and positive contrasts, a coloured solution, a washing solution, and a stopping solution. The block ELISA method comprises the following steps of 1, taking out a detection plate pre-coated with virus antigens from the kit for detecting pig pseudorabies virus antibodies, adding diluted blood serum needing to be detected into the detection plate pre-coated with the virus antigens, and simultaneously, setting negative and positive contrast apertures, 2, shaking up the diluted blood serum in the negative and the positive contrast apertures, shaking off a solution in the negative and the positive contrast apertures, and washing the detection plate by the washing solution, and 3, adding the pig pseudorabies virus monoclonal antibodies labelled by horseradish peroxidase into the negative and the positive contrast apertures, washing, adding the colored solution into the negative and the positive contrast apertures to carry out room-temperature coloration in the dark, adding the stopping solution into the negative and the positive contrast apertures, and determining OD630nm values of the negative and the positive contrast apertures by an ELISA apparatus. The block ELISA method has the advantages of good singularity, high sensitivity, short detection time, and high accuracy because of utilization of an S/N ratio method in result determination.

The invention provides a novel coronavirus antigen epitope and application thereof. A super computer is used for simulating S, E, M and N protein structures of the novel coronavirus, and novel coronavirus epitopes SEQ ID NO 1-38 are obtained through calculation. The epitopes have very good immunogenicity; an antibody generated by inducing a part of epitope polypeptide has the effect of neutralizing the novel coronavirus; the antigen epitope can be combined with antibodies in serum of novel coronavirus patients at home and abroad, has the potential of resisting various novel coronavirus strains, and also has the potential of identifying and applying different strains. The epitope provided by the invention can be used for (1) research and development of novel coronavirus vaccines and universal coronavirus vaccines such as MERS viruses and SARS viruses; and (2) preparing a novel coronavirus antibody, and further detecting and typing viruses and treating diseases caused by the viruses. Thenovel coronavirus antigen epitope has a wide application prospect in the aspects of prevention of coronavirus and propagation and outbreak thereof, and detection and diagnosis of virus strains.

The invention discloses a porcine seneca valley virus strain and an application thereof. In the invention, the seneca valley virus strain CH-FJZZ-2017 is isolated from pathological materials of porcine idiopathic vesicular disease in a pig farm in Fujian Province, with the preservation number of CGMCC No. 12160. The isolated porcine seneca valley virus CH-FJZZ-2017 in the invention is isolated from swinery newly suffering from the epidemic disease within Chinese territory, represents the current epidemic predominant virus strain in China, has a good virus strain background, and can be used as an inactivated vaccine production virus strain and a virus seed for testing, thereby providing a material for subsequent relevant experimental study, and laying a material foundation.

The present invention relates to the field of animal virology, and provides a recombinant chicken-origin H9N2 avian influenza virus vaccine strain and a method for isolation, identification and purification of the strain. The invention further relates to a research of biological characteristics of the strain, especially to a research of characteristics of the strain adopted as the vaccine strain,and an evaluation of immune effects of the strain on SPF chickens. The preservation number of the strain is CCTCCNO:V201030. According to the present invention, the antigen variation conditions of the virus strain and other isolated virus strains are represented from the molecular level; after the virus strain is prepared into the vaccine, the prepared vaccine is adopted to immunize the 4 week old SPF chickens, with the protection effect analysis of the homologous H9 influenza wild virus strain and the heterologous H9 influenza wild virus strain, the results show that the influenza virus strain can be adopted as the spare vaccine strain of H9 subtype avian influenza. With the present invention, the spare vaccine strain is provided for prevention of the avian influenza outbreak by using the vaccine, the molecular biology technology program is provided for screen of the avian influenza virus vaccine strain, the molecular biology background is provided for study of the mechanism of animal infection by the avian influenza, and the important public health significance is provided.

The method relates to an attenuated vaccine strain for avian infectious bronchitis virus and application thereof. According to the invention, avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) is attenuated, so as to successfully obtain an IBV attenuated strain CCTCC.V201232 and a derivative virus strain thereof. The attenuated strain and derivative virus strain provided by the invention can be used in preparation of a vaccine composition for prevention of infectious bronchitis. Experiments show that the attenuated strain and vaccine composition provided by the invention can be inoculated to immature birds, so as to effectively activate immune system in the birds and well prevent avian infectious bronchitis.