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Date of Patent
August 30, 2011
Patent Application Number
12636143
Date Filed
December 11, 2009
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The present invention relates to a vaccine and a method for protecting piglets against PCV-2 infection by administering a vaccine comprising at least 20 micrograms/dose of ORF-2 protein of porcine circovirus type 2, even when they have a relatively high titer of maternally derived antibodies against PCV-2. A vaccine according to the invention may contain a recombinant ORF-2 protein, wherein said recombinant protein is preferably produced by way of expression from a baculovirus expression vector in insect cells, said baculovirus expression vector containing the PCV-2 ORF-2 gene sequence under control of a suitable promoter.
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