Patent ID: 7256270
Filing Date: 2007-08-14
Classification: A61K,C07K

Abstract:
1. A method for the production of a microbial adherence inhibitor for administration to food animals to inhibit the adherence of a colony-forming immunogen in the rumen or intestinal tracts of said food animals, said immunogen is P antigen from P. anaerobius , which method comprises: A. Inoculating female birds, in or about to reach their egg laying age, with P antigen from B. Allowing a period of time to permit the production in the birds and eggs laid by the birds of antibody to P antigen from C. Harvesting the eggs laid by the birds; D. Separating the entire contents of said harvested eggs from the egg shells; and E. Drying said entire contents of said separated eggs, said dried entire contents of said eggs when administered to food animals with animal feed promoting the growth of the food animals by decreasing the waste of dietary protein caused by the presence of a protein-wasting immunogen in the rumen of intestinal tracts of the food animals by binding the IgY immunoglobulins to the protein-wasting immunogen, said binding of the IgY immunoglobulins to the protein-wasting immunogen being assisted by the IgM and IgA immunoglobulins to inhibit the ability of the protein-wasting immunogen to adhere to the rumen or intestinal tracts of the animals.