The groupers are vital fish in Taiwan, the market of grouper fry over 300 million dollars. While grouper nervous necrosis virus (NNV) has caused mass mortality, especially 100% in larvae and juveniles, which economically impacts on culture of marine fish. The vaccination is one of the best methods to against viral diseases. The dragon grouper (Epinephelus lanceolatus), malabar grouper (E. malabaricus) and brown-marbled grouper (E. fuscoguttatus) were injected with different dosages and injection frequencies of virus-like particles (VLPs) of DGNNV, which is by the first claimed. The anti-sera of vaccinated fish were analyzed with eight kinds of immunology methods, among which antigen-capture ELISA was the best choice for qualitative and quantitative assays. The signal of antibodies in the vaccinated fish was detected in all groupers in one week after primary immunization, and the antibody titers increased markedly in one month. In dragon grouper, fish was injected with 10 £gg of VLPs, the antibody titer reached 1.05. To given booster injection once, antibody titers were raised to 35.7%. In malabar grouper, after injected twice with 50 £gg of VLPs, the antibody titer raised 33.3% than inoculation once in six weeks. After brown-marbled grouper was injected with 450 £gg of VLPs, the high antibody titer reached to 1.57 at five weeks post primary immunization. Specific antibodies still can be detected after seven months. In the in vitro assay with MGNNV of 103.5 TCID50/mL, neutralizing antibody titer of control fish were all lower than 1:50. The neutralizing antibody titer of anti-serum of dragon grouper was detected at 1:200 at one week, and raised to 1:1600 at four weeks and 1:6400 at eleven weeks after primary vaccination. In malabar grouper and brown-marbled grouper, the neutralizing antibody titers were 1:3200 and 1:400, respectively, in one month. The antibody titer can not increased by Freund¡¦s complete adjuvant. The fish produced high antibody titer and high protection by immunization with VLPs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0626105-182315 |
| Date | 26 June 2005 |
| Creators | Chang, Chiung-yin |
| Contributors | Chan-Shing Lin, YI-REN HONG, Jong-Kang Liu, Jiin-Tsuey Cheng |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0626105-182315 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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