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Table 1 Licensed products for passive immunization of ruminants, horses and pigs.

From: The potential for immunoglobulins and host defense peptides (HDPs) to reduce the use of antibiotics in animal production

Product type

Animal

Disease prevention/targeted pathogens

Immunoglobulin type/origin

Administration (oral/parenteral)

E. coli specific antibodies

Calves

Scour

Bovine colostrum IgG/IgY

Oral

Antibacterial bovine serum antibodies

Cattle

Arcanobacterium pyogenes

Bovine serum

Parenteral

Calves

E. coli

  

Sheep

Mannheimia haemolytica

Pasteurella multocida

Salmonella typhimurium

  

Clostridial antitoxins

Cattle

Clostridium perfringens

Equine Ig

Parenteral (sc and iv)

Calves

C&D

  

Goats

Clostridium botulinum

  

Sheep

C&B

  

Swine

   

Horses

   

Tetanus antitoxin

Horses

Tetanus

Equine serum

Parenteral

Cattle

   

Sheep

   

Swine

   

Goats

   

Anti-West Nile virus antibodies

Horses

West Nile virus

Equine Ig

Parenteral

Anti-endotoxin antibodies

Horses

Septicaemia

Equine plasma from hyper-immune horses

Parenteral

Antibacterial plasma antibodies

Horses

Rhodococcus equi E. coli J-5

Equine plasma from hyper-immune horses

Parenteral

Equine plasma

Horses

Failure of passive transfer

Equine plasma

 
  1. Reproduced with permission from Hedegaard et al. [18]