A PRELIMINARY STUDY ON VACCINATION OF CALVES WITH RINDERPEST AND BCG VACCINES

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A preliminary study on calves dually vaccinated with Tissue Culture Rinderpest (TCRPV) and BCG vaccines revealed that the development of serum-Rinderpest neutralizing antibodies was enhanced. The development of cytopathic effect (CPE) of Rinderpest virus on bovine kidney cells was retarted on carrying out serum neutralization test with serum of BCG-vaccin ated calves. In calves dually vaccinated by (BCG & TCRPV) and by BCG, the skin reaction to tuberclin test was similar to mammalian and avian tuberclin and time of maximum reactivi