BookJacqueline MacDonald, editor.
Summary: This book provides an in-depth explanation of the advantages and current limitations of recombinant plant-made vaccines for use in veterinary medicine, including for livestock, pets, and wild animals. Written by top scientists in the field, it discusses the background to and latest scientific advances in plant-made vaccines for the most commonly targeted veterinary infections. With the recent high-profile research into recombinant plant-made therapeutics for Ebola and Zika viruses, it is likely that the products will be commercialized and widely used in the future. Plant-made therapeutics have a variety of advantages over those made in traditional systems; however, their most fruitful application may be in veterinary medicine, due to less stringent regulations and a greater need for low-cost products.
Contents:
1) History and promise of plant-made vaccines for animals, Ed Rybicki
2) Plant transformation strategies, Verónica Araceli Márquez-Escobar, Omar González-Ortega, Sergio Rosales-Mendoza
Vaccines for wild, feral and companion animals, 3) Rabies and related lyssaviruses, Charles E. Rupprecht, Rachel Chikwamba
4) A comprehensive review of Toxoplasma gondii biology and host-cell interaction: challenges for a plant-based vaccine, Valeria Sander, Sergio O. Angel, Marina Clemente
5) Vaccines against West Nile virus, Haiyan Sun, Qiang Chen
Vaccines for poultry, 6) Plant-made veterinary vaccines for Newcastle disease virus, David R. Thomas, Amanda M. Walmsley
7) Infectious bursal disease virus, Evangelina Gómez, Soledad Lucero, Matías Richetta, Silvina Chimeno Zoth, Analía Berinstein
8) Plant-produced avian influenza antigens, Yanaysi Ceballo, Alina Lopez, Kenia Tiel, Abel Hernandez
9) Plant-made vaccines against avian reovirus, Ching-Chun Chang, Hung-Jen Liu
Vaccines for swine, 10) Toward the optimization of a plant-based oral vaccine against cysticercosis, Edda Sciutto, Marisela Hernández, Jacquelynne Cervantes-Torres, Elizabeth Monreal
Escalante, Omayra Bolaños-Martínez, Juan Francisco Rodríguez, Gladis Fragoso, Sergio, Rosales-Mendoza
11) Classical swine fever virus, Han Sang Yoo
12) Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, Zayn Khamis, Rima Menassa
13) Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), Elizabeth Loza-Rubio, Edith Rojas-Anaya
Vaccines for ruminants, 14) The benefit of a plant-based cattle vaccine for reducing Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli shedding and improving food safety, Adam Chin-Fatt, Ed Topp, Rima Menassa
15) Foot-and-mouth disease, Vanesa Ruiz, Andrés Wigdorovitz
Vaccines with limited research, 16) Diseases with limited research of plant-based vaccines, Ann Meyers.