China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine ›› 2020, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (5): 1539-1546.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2020.05.029

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Research Progress on Vaccine Immunization and Treatment of Animal Chlamydiosis

TAN Shumin, ZHOU Jizhang   

  1. State Key Laboratory on Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou 730046, China
  • Online:2020-05-20 Published:2020-05-18

Abstract: Chlamydiosis of animals is caused by Chlamydia infection,and the clinical symptoms such as abortion,stillbirth or decreased egg yield usually appear in the infected animals.The disease is widespread in cattle,sheep,pigs,chickens,ducks and other livestock,as well as foxes,deer and other special economic animals,seriously hindering the healthy development of animals.This paper reviews the current prevention and control of animal chlamydiosis,mainly including vaccine immunization and drug treatment.Vaccine immunization is the most economical and effective method to prevent animal chlamydiosis at present,and drug treatment is the best choice for animals infected with Chlamydia.This paper focuses on the characteristics and the latest research progress of inactivated vaccine,attenuated live vaccine,DNA vaccine,subunit vaccine,live vector vaccine and other vaccines.The drug treatments mainly introduced the research progress of antibiotics and traditional Chinese medicine,the prospect of other drug treatment was explored,and the future prevention and control of animal chlamydia disease was prospected.

Key words: animal chlamydiosis; Chlamydia spp.; vaccine immunization; drug treatment

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