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Table 1 Vaccination strategies and challenge strategies.

From: A multiepitope vaccine encoding four Eimeria epitopes with PLGA nanospheres: a novel vaccine candidate against coccidiosis in laying chickens

Group

Vaccination strategies

Challenge strategies

Treatment (each animal)

Vaccination time

Treatment (each animal)

Challenge time

Euthanasia time

Blank (PBS)

Equal volume of PBS

At 14 and 21 days of age

Equal volume of PBS (0 oocysts) at 28 days old

At 28 days of age

At 35 days of age, and the intestinal contents were separated

Blank (Coccidia)

Equal volume of PBS

5 × 104 oocysts of E. tenella for each animal at 28 days old

Control

200 μg of pET32a vector protein

NSLC

200 μg of NSLC protein

NSLC-FA

NSLC-FA emulsions containing 200 μg of NSLC protein

NSLC-PLGA

NSLC-PLGA nanospheres containing 200 μg of NSLC protein

NSLC-CS

NSLC-CS nanospheres containing 200 μg of NSLC protein

NSLC-ISCOM

NSLC-ISCOM vaccines containing 200 μg of NSLC protein

NSLC-RG1

NSLC-RG1 vaccines containing 200 μg of NSLC protein

NSLC-201VG

NSLC-201VG emulsions containing 200 μg of NSLC protein

NSLC-71VR

NSLC-71VR emulsions containing 200 μg of NSLC protein