DETECTION AND CONTROL OF PORCINE REPRODUCTIVE AND RESPIRATORY SYNDROME VIRUS AND EMERGING VIRAL DISEASES OF SWINE

Currently singular vaccines against either PRRSV or PCV2 are available but a bi-valent vaccine against both PRRSV and PCV2 are lacking. The objective of this project is to evaluate the use of non-pahtogenic PCV1 and the vaccine virus PCV1-2 as potential vaccine delivery vectors for the development of a bi-valent vaccine against both PRRSV and PCV2. We expect that the project will validate the use of PCV1 as a useful vaccine delivery vector for other swien pathogens, and we also expect that we will demonstarte that the vaccine virus PCV1-2 can serve as a vaccine delivery vector for creating bi-valent vaccines against other swine viruses.