Infection and treatment method (ITM) vaccine against East Coast fever: reducing the number of doses per straw for use in smallholder dairy herds by thawing, diluting and refreezing already packaged vaccine

Table 1 Clinical and parasitological responses in cattle inoculated with the ILRI 0804 SD vaccine stabilate at a dilution of 1:14 or 1:20

Animal	Days to fever	Duration of fever (d)	Days to schizonts	Duration of schizonts (d)	Days to piroplasms	ECF reaction	Day of seroconv.
Group 1. Immunizing Dose - 1:14
BF 051	nd^a	nd	12	2	nd	mild	21
BF 053	14	6	12	8	15	mod.^b	21
BF 056	nd	nd	12	2	nd	mild	21
BF 061	nd	nd	nd	nd	nd	nr^c	nd
BF 066	nd	nd	nd	nd	nd	nr	28
BF 069	13	1	10	5	15	mod.	21
Group 2. Immunizing Dose - 1:20
BF 049	nd	nd	8	1	nd	mild	21
BF 052	nd	nd	nd	nd	nd	nr	28
BF 055	13	4	9	13	15	mod.	21
BF 060	11	7	9	6	14	mild	21
BF 065	nd	nd	11	4	nd	mild	21
BF 068	14	8	9	9	15	mod.	21

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