COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE IMMUNE RESPONSE OF CHICKENS VACCINATED INTRAMASCULRLY WITH DIFFERENT NEWCASTLE DISEASE VACCINES

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In a comparative study on five different types of Newcastle disease (ND) vaccines (Hitchner, B., La sota, Aluminium hyd roxide (AH) adsorbant Hitchner B, strain, Komarov and Inctiva ted vaccine injected intramuscularly in to 21 day old broiler chicks, which were previously vaccinated with Hitchner B occularly at the age of 7 days. This study revealed that for intramuncular route of vaccination the most suitable vaccine is Hitchner B, followed by oil adjuvent inactivated, AH-adsorped Hitchner B, then La Sota and finally the local komarov vaccine.