Solving a hidden threat to New Zealand's meat and dairy industry

New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- Associate Professors Bridget Stocker and Mattie Timmer from Victoria University of Wellington are working with AgResearch to help address this problem, developing vaccines to help prevent ovine pneumonia, with promising early results.

This is the next step in an ongoing project for the University researchers, who have spent the past few years developing a new class of vaccine adjuvant-which is an additive to a vaccine that improves the host's immune response and increases vaccine efficacy. During the development of this adjuvant class, the researchers, along with their Ph.D. student Amy Foster, worked with Professor Sho Yamasaki from Japan, one of the world's foremost experts in immunology. "To have an effective vacc...