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Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports
1978; Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station contribution; no. 79-105-S; Report of progress (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service); 342; Swine; Oral E. coli milk vaccine; Colibacillosis
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Using Oral E. Coli Milk Vaccine To Control Colibacillosis (1978), D A. Schoneweis, V Gaeth
Using Oral E. Coli Milk Vaccine To Control Colibacillosis (1978), D A. Schoneweis, V Gaeth
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports
Colibacillosis is still a costly disease to swine producers in spite of new antibiotics and other products and procedures used to prevent or treat the disease. A recent aid in controlling the disease is the oral E. coli milk vaccine developed by Dr. Irvin Kohler. It consists of isolating a pathogenic E. coli from the herd and feeding the organism to pregnant sows to stimulate colostral antibodies. It is a giant step forward from the earlier recommendation of the late Dr. Howard Dunne who suggested taking the bedding and feces from the farrowing house and feeding it to pregnant sows …