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Technology – CSF and Sheep Pox Vaccines

Part of: GS Prelims and GS – III – Sci & tech

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The ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh transferred the Technology – CSF and Sheep Pox Vaccines to M/s Hester Biosciences through Agrinnovate India Limited.

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Live Attenuated Indigenous CSF Cell Culture Vaccine (IVRI-CSF-BS):

The Classical Swine Fever (CSF) is an important disease of pigs that causes 100% mortality.
In India, the disease is controlled by a lapinized CSF vaccine (Weybridge Strain, U.K.) produced by killing large numbers of rabbits.
To avoid this, the ICAR-IVRI developed a Cell Culture CSF Vaccine using the Lapinized Vaccine Virus from foreign strain.

Indigenous Live Attenuated Sheep Pox Vaccine [SPPV Srin 38/00]

Sheep pox is a severe viral disease in sheep.
A live attenuated Sheep Pox Vaccine using indigenous strain was developed for preventive vaccination in the sheep population.
The developed Vaccine uses indigenous Sheep Pox Virus Strain [SPPV Srin 38/00] and is adapted to grow in the Vero cell line which makes the Vaccine production to be easily scalable.

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