This book provides an in-depth explanation of the advantages and current limitations of recombinant plant-made vaccines for use in veterinary medicine, including for livestock, pets, and wild animals. Written by top scientists in the field, it discusses the background to and latest scientific advances in plant-made vaccines for the most commonly targeted veterinary infections. 
With the recent high-profile research into recombinant plant-made therapeutics for Ebola and Zika viruses, it is likely that the products will be commercialized and widely used in the future. Plant-made therapeutics have a variety of advantages over those made in traditional systems; however, their most fruitful application may be in veterinary medicine, due to less stringent regulations and a greater need for low-cost products.

Preface

1)         History and promise of plant-made vaccines for animals

Ed Rybicki

 

2)         Plant transformation strategies

Verónica Araceli Márquez-Escobar, Omar González-Ortega, Sergio Rosales-Mendoza

 

Vaccines for wild, feral and companion animals   

 

3)         Rabies and related lyssaviruses

Charles E. Rupprecht, Rachel Chikwamba

 

4)         A comprehensive review ofToxoplasma gondiibiology and host-cell interaction: challenges for a plant-based vaccine

Valeria Sander, Sergio O. Angel, Marina Clemente

 

5)         Vaccines against West Nile virus

                                    Haiyan Sun, Qiang Chen

 

Vaccines for poultry

 

6)         Plant-made veterinary vaccines for Newcastle disease virus

David R. Thomas, Amanda M. Walmsley

                       

7)         Infectious bursal disease virus  

                                    Evangelina Gómez, Soledad Lucero, Matías Richetta, Silvina Chimeno Zoth, Analía Berinstein

 

8)         Plant-produced avian influenza antigens

                                    Yanaysi Ceballo, Alina Lopez, Kenia Tiel, Abel Hernandez

 

9)         Plant-made vaccines against avian reovirus

                                    Ching-Chun Chang, Hung-Jen Liu

 

Vaccines for swine

 

10)       Toward the optimization of a plant-based oral vaccine against cysticercosis

                                    Edda Sciutto, Marisela Hernández, Jacquelynne Cervantes-Torres, Elizabeth Monreal-               

                                    Escalante, Omayra Bolaños-Martínez, Juan Francisco Rodríguez, Gladis Fragoso, Sergio

                                    Rosales-Mendoza

 

11)       Classical swine fever virus

                                    Han Sang Yoo

 

12)       Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus

                                    Zayn Khamis, Rima Menassa

 

13)       Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS)

                                    Elizabeth Loza-Rubio, Edith Rojas-Anaya

 

Vaccines for ruminants

 

14)       The benefit of a plant-based cattle vaccine for reducing EnterohemorrhagicEscherichia

                                    coli shedding and improving food safety.

                                    Adam Chin-Fatt, Ed Topp, Rima Menassa

 

15)       Foot-and-mouth disease

                                    Vanesa Ruiz, Andrés Wigdorovitz

 

Vaccines with limited research

 

16)       Diseases with limited research of plant-based vaccines

                                    Ann Meyers