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Calves responded to a single intramuscular injection of an attenuated strain of infectious bovine rhinotracheitis virus by producing IgM followed by IgG antibody. Both IgM and IgG antibody produced during the first month were primarily complement-requiring neutralizing antibody (CRNAb), especially IgM antibody. After a month, IgG had replaced IgM as the predominant immunoglobulin, and titers with and without complement (C') decreased in both IgG and IgM fractions. The largest decrease was in the IgM CRNAb fraction.
Seven days after a second injection given on day 196, calves responded with an anamnestic IgG response in which CRNAb titers were 1 or 2 two-fold dilutions higher than non-CRNAb titers. One calf developed an IgM response similar to its primary response, whereas inhibition of the IgM response occurred in the other 3 calves which had much lower IgM antibody titers than those attained in the primary response. Twenty-eight days after the second injection the titers of IgG were the same or only a 2-fold dilution less than their 7-day secondary titers, whereas IgM titers generally decreased considerably more than this. Guinea pig and rabbit sera were equally effective as C' sources in potentiating CRNAb, whereas bovine serum was a poor C' source.
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Rossi, C.R., Kiesel, G.K. Antibody class and complement requirement on neutralizing antibodies in the primary and secondary antibody response of cattle to infectious bovine rhinotracheitis virus vaccine. Archives of Virology 51, 191–198 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01318023
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