Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1973

Document Type

Thesis

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Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

An antigenic material was extracted from the leukocytes of horses infected with Equine Infectious Anemia. In unmodified form, this material was infectious, immunogenic, and antigenic. After modification by anti-viral agents and cross-linkage to rabbit gamma globulin, the material retained its immunogenic and antigenic properties, but became non-infectious. Inoculation of the non-infectious antigen into experimental horses elicited antibody production. When these horses were challenged with live virus, the classical symptoms of the disease did not appear. The possibility exists that a protective vaccine was developed from modified antigen preparations.

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45 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.

Identifier

FADT13611

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