Research Management Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia
Abstract
The vaccine, namely JESKYL, was developed by using a local type of herpesvirus originally obtained from a
disease outbreak in Malaysia. The vaccine is proven
to be useful to contain the disease, namely pseudorabies
that mainly effects swine and some other mammals.
Without vaccination, an outbreak of the disease may
cause a severe loss to the livestock industry. UPM has successfully developed the vaccine by using an
advance biotechnology approach. The safety and the
effectiveness ofthe vaccine have been assured following
the removal of genetic factors that are responsible for
development of viral disease. In the process, two
important genes have been removed from the virus or inactivated permanently
