In 1796, Jenner developed the world's first vaccine, the smallpox vaccine, setting a precedent for humans to use vaccines to control infectious diseases. At the end of the 19th century, Pasteur, the father of vaccines, successfully developed attenuated anthrax, cholera and rabies vaccines, forming the first vaccine revolution. After more than half a century, it was a transitional period for vaccine development. People have successfully developed a variety of vaccines based on the vaccine development experience of Pasteur and others, and they have played an irreplaceable role in infectious disease control. In long-term research, people have found that the virus can grow in fertilized chicken embryos, thereby creating a safe and effective chicken embryo tissue vaccine against yellow fever, pioneering the preparation of virus vaccines. Subsequently, with the emergence and development of molecular biology technology, people began to use this technology to carry out genetic engineering vaccine research in 1962, and successfully developed hepatitis B surface antigen vaccine in 1986, which marked the beginning of the second vaccine revolution. In 1992, Tang et al. reported genetic immunization, which triggered the third vaccine revolution.
1. Introduction
The control and elimination of animal infectious diseases is not only vital to the healthy development of the breeding industry, but also significant to human health. At present, the principle of the control of animal infectious diseases is to take corresponding measures for the three links that cause epidemics, that is, to eliminate infectious diseases, cut off transmission routes and protect susceptible groups. The role of vaccines is mainly to protect susceptible groups, thereby reducing the risk of animal epidemics. It can be said that animal vaccines are the most effective means for humans to control animal diseases. However, to effectively control and even eliminate infectious diseases, vaccines alone are not enough, because the source of infection and the way of transmission are not resolved. There is a misunderstanding in the application of vaccines to control livestock and poultry diseases in my country, that is, excessive reliance on vaccines. This idea exists in a considerable number of decision-making leaders, as well as some operators and technicians. Only when we have a correct understanding of the role of vaccines in controlling and even eliminating infectious diseases in livestock and poultry can we grasp the direction of vaccine research and use vaccines correctly.
Most of my country's animal vaccine companies are small and highly competitive. The industry leader is China Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. with a background of state-owned enterprises. It is the company with the highest proportion of tender seedling business (85%), and the company with the highest market share of seedlings is Ruipu Biotech (80%). Non-listed companies have posed a threat to listed companies in terms of tendering seedling bidding and market seedling sales, such as Biwei Antai, Plyco Biology, Yikang Biology, Zhongnong Weite, Qingdao Ebond, etc. The profits of animal vaccine companies are relatively high, which has attracted many investors.
Compared with the strict epidemic prevention system in the United States, China's animal diseases are mainly epidemic prevention. The culling system and the disease eradication system still have a long time to be standardized and implemented. Therefore, the ceiling of the industry will not appear; China's animal vaccine demand army, China's pig breeding industry is still in the initial stage of scale, and the continued increase in scale will bring about the continued growth of vaccine demand; the non-marketization of animal vaccines in China (there are government vaccines and market vaccines) system will further move towards marketization will bring industry scale Growth (the increase in government seedling prices and the liberalization of some government seedlings to the market).
In the future, with the continuous improvement of epidemic prevention awareness and the gradual release of market vaccines, biological products will usher in a larger market space. In 2013, the animal vaccine market was 8.38 billion yuan, and the average growth rate since 2009 was 19%. In 2015, its market size was about 12.6 billion yuan, and the national market size in 2016 was about 15.1 billion yuan, a growth rate of about 21%. According to calculations, its long-term market size will increase to about 32 billion yuan. Coupled with high barriers to foreign investment (need to establish joint ventures with domestic companies), domestic biopharmaceutical companies still have plenty of room for growth.
2015-2020, the domestic animal vaccine market will enter a golden period of rapid development. First, there are a huge number of economic animals that China needs to be immunized. The stock and output of major livestock such as pigs, cattle, and sheep basically maintain a growth rate of 5-10%, while aquatic products such as fish and shrimp also have vaccine requirements. Secondly, China's animal husbandry is developing towards large-scale breeding. Large-scale farming, especially high-density farming, has increased the probability of infection of livestock and poultry. Third, in order to resist the epidemic, farmers have used a lot of pesticides and antibiotics, causing excessive residues in poultry and livestock products. In the face of the "green barriers" of developed countries, the export of Chinese poultry and livestock products has been blocked.
Generally speaking, compared with developed countries, the scale of animal breeding in my country is still relatively low, and free-range and small-scale breeding still account for a large proportion of the animal husbandry industry. At the same time, large-scale culling models require relatively large funds, and the related frequent Sexual compensation mechanism has not yet formed in our country. Therefore, my country cannot adopt the epidemic prevention model of "culling the epidemic area as the mainstay, supplemented by vaccination and prevention" as in developed countries. It is expected that for a long time to come, the policy of "vaccination and prevention as the mainstay and culling of epidemic areas as supplement" will not change, and animal vaccines will be the main means of epidemic prevention in my country's animal husbandry. The country will continue to implement the compulsory immunization system for major diseases for a long time, and increase financial support, which will increase the demand for animal vaccines and promote the development of animal vaccine companies.
2. Development status of animal vaccines in my country
Vaccines can be divided into two categories: live vaccines and inactivated
vaccines according to whether they contain live pathogens; according to their
development methods and production technologies, they can be divided into
conventional vaccines and new vaccines. The so-called "new vaccine" refers to
vaccines developed on the basis of recombinant DNA technology and molecular
biology after the 1970s, also known as recombinant vaccines or genetically
engineered vaccines. Regardless of the vaccine, three elements must be
considered: safety, immune efficacy and price acceptability. In addition, the
ease of use of the vaccine is also a factor to be considered. The acceptability
of prices among the above three elements is particularly important for animal
vaccines, which is very different from human vaccines. For example, the avian
flu vaccine is only a few cents per person, while the human flu vaccine costs 60
to 70 yuan per person.
2.1 Conventional vaccines
(1) Current status
The biggest problem with conventional live vaccines is safety. The original
live vaccine is actually a wild poison. For example, in my country, the Tang
Dynasty used the pus of smallpox patients to inoculate to prevent the serious
outbreak of smallpox. Some countries and regions have also used the wild poison
of infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) Examples of vaccines are rare now because
of poor safety. Most of the conventional live vaccines in use are artificially
weakened by different methods. Because this weakening process is difficult to
control, and vaccine viruses still need to multiply in animals to induce strong
immunity, general live vaccines have certain residual virulence or
pathogenicity. The residual virulence of the vaccine and the immune response
caused are often a contradiction. From the perspective of safety, the smaller
the residual virulence of the vaccine, the better, and it is best to be
completely non-toxic, but such live vaccines often produce weak immunity. This
is particularly evident in the live vaccine of infectious French bursal disease
(IBD), which is completely attenuated and cannot induce protection in the
presence of maternal antibodies.
On the other hand, if the residual virulence reaches a certain level,
although it can produce strong immunity, it can produce clinical or subclinical
diseases by itself, and in the case of IBD vaccine, it can also produce
immunosuppression against other diseases. The residual virulence of the vaccine
is the main cause of immune side effects. For example, the use of live
infectious bronchitis (IB) and Newcastle disease (ND) vaccines in chickens
causes respiratory side effects, and the use of live reproductive and
respiratory syndrome (PRSR) vaccines in pigs It also produces side reactions,
which are common. In addition to residual virulence, a bigger problem with
attenuated live vaccines is the recombination between vaccine strains and wild
strains, leading to the emergence of new strains. This is particularly prominent
in live IBD vaccines. Vaccine viruses and wild viruses continue to exist in
chickens at the same time, and new recombinant viruses, especially S1 gene
recombination, may appear. Sometimes the vaccine virus reverses to increase the
pathogenicity, such as flock A. The terminal repeats of the subgroup leukemia
virus (ALV) can be activated by the MDV serotype 2 vaccine to enhance ALV
replication and tumorigenesis. Although conventional live vaccines have these
safety problems, they are low in cost and generally produce strong immunity.
They can simultaneously induce humoral immunity, cellular immunity, local
mucosal immunity, and non-specific immune responses. Therefore, they are still
the protagonist of animal vaccines.
In addition to live vaccines, most animal vaccines are inactivated
vaccines, which have the advantage of good safety. Only in a few cases,
accidents occur due to incomplete inactivation. However, the cost of inactivated
vaccines is more expensive than that of live vaccines, and adjuvants are needed
to increase the immune response, which often requires each injection. Another
important disadvantage is that it can only induce humoral immune responses.
Therefore, although high levels of antibodies are present, they cannot prevent
the invasion. The poison is replicated and discharged in the intestine or
respiratory tract. Breeding livestock and poultry with high levels of humoral
immunity produced by inactivated vaccines will seriously interfere with the
active immunity of offspring. Some inactivated vaccines, especially inactivated
vaccines from the entire army such as E. coli, can also cause serious side
effects.
(2) Improvements
Despite these shortcomings, conventional vaccines are still the leading
products of animal vaccines. Therefore, while studying new vaccines, we should
not give up research on new conventional vaccines. Using conventional methods,
it is still possible to develop live vaccines that have better safety and/or
immune efficacy than existing vaccines. For example, in terms of live IBD
vaccines, some existing vaccines cannot produce strong immunity in the presence
of maternal antibodies and cannot resist super-virulent attacks, while other
vaccines can produce strong immunity in the presence of maternal antibodies.
Immune, and can resist super-virulent attacks, but the residual virulence is too
strong, in some cases it can make chickens have strong immune suppression. Using
conventional methods to develop new vaccines that can produce strong immunity
under certain conditions of maternal antibodies and resist super-virulent
attacks without causing significant immunosuppression in chickens has become the
starting point for our work. Another example is the use of ND live vaccines to
study room for improvement using conventional methods. The control of ND in my
country will mainly rely on the use of vaccines at present or for a long time in
the future. The key problem is that the immunized flocks have strong virulence
or can still cause infections and replicate and excrete in the mucosa of the
respiratory or digestive tract. Maintain spread within the group. Therefore, the
study of new live vaccines requires that in addition to low virulence (ICPI≤0.4)
without obvious respiratory side effects, it is also required to stimulate
strong immunity, especially high levels of respiratory and digestive mucosal
immunity. This vaccine will greatly reduce the level of virulent ND infection
and replication in the respiratory and intestinal tracts of immunized chickens,
which is beneficial to the control of ND. When discussing Marek’s Disease (MD)
in chickens, Witter recently pointed out that although the use of classical
virological methods to develop new vaccines is currently not favored, it may
provide some promising products. He discovered in cell culture that the RMI
strain is an attenuated virus that integrates the LTR sequence of
reticuloendothelial hyperplasia in the MDVJM strain. It can provide protection
against super virulent challenge in all strains of chickens, and is
substantially more effective than the CVI988 vaccine.
In addition, conventional inactivated vaccines can also be improved in
terms of high-efficiency immune adjuvants, enhancers and process improvement to
develop high-efficiency vaccines.
2.2 New vaccines
(1) Very demand
As mentioned earlier, there is still room for conventional methods to study
new livestock and poultry vaccines. However, in general, the traditional
classical methods are used to develop live vaccines that are safer and more
effective than existing vaccines. This process cannot Controlled, often random
and by chance, the development of new vaccines is far less rapid than the
vaccine changes in livestock and poultry groups, such as the continuous
emergence of new pathogenic types and serums of IB, the prevalence of
super-virulent IBD and the incidence of MD virus The virulence is getting
stronger and stronger, and new and targeted vaccines that can be controlled
during the research process are needed. Judging from the implementation of some
infectious disease control and elimination programs and the requirements of
immune monitoring, it is necessary to distinguish the immune response generated
by natural infection and vaccination. Generally speaking, it is difficult for
conventional vaccines to do this, but new vaccines based on DNA recombination
technology and molecular biology can easily do this. Pseudorabies gene deletion
vaccine is a good example.
For most bacterial diseases, they are live vaccines developed by
conventional methods, and most of the inactivated vaccines are not effective.
The control of bacterial diseases in our country mainly relies on vitamins. As
antibiotics are becoming more and more serious, they not only increase the cost,
but also pose an important threat to food safety. Therefore, it is urgent to use
new methods to study vaccines against important bacterial diseases. There are
several common requirements for new vaccines based on DNA recombination
technology and molecular biology: (1) The safety should be higher than the
existing conventional vaccines; (2) If the immune efficacy is not significantly
higher than that of conventional vaccines, at least It is equivalent to
conventional vaccines; (3) The price is roughly equal to that of conventional
vaccines; (4) Some conventional vaccines can’t solve the problem, such as
distinguishing natural infections and vaccine responses.
(2) Current status
There are 4 types of new vaccines that have been licensed in the world and
are being studied: Type 1 is inactivated products, such as recombinant protein
vaccines; Type 2 products are gene deletion vaccines made from genetically
deleted pathogens; Type 3 is expression of inserted genes The carrier gene; 4
types are genetic vaccines and live DNA vaccines.
In the first category, there are recombinant alpha and gamma interferons,
and other cytokines. Interferon-α has a significant inhibitory effect on some
viral infections, while interferon-γ can enhance the expression of MHCП class
molecules and increase weight gain. Subunit vaccines made from eukaryotic or
prokaryotically expressed recombinant proteins also belong to this category, but
few have been approved for use in the field of animal vaccines.
In the 2 types of products, there are gene deletion vaccines or labeled
vaccines, that is, specific genes related to virulence and antibody production
are deleted or changed. Serological testing can distinguish between wild virus
infection and vaccine response. The most successful examples of gene deletion
vaccines for livestock and poultry are pseudorabies and Salmonella enteritidis
(SE) vaccines and Salmonella typhimurium vaccines, because the vaccine strains
have deleted pathogenic genes and are safe to use.
In the three types of products, fowlpox virus, chicken Marek's disease
virus (HVT and MDV type I), adenovirus, etc., and Salmonella bacteria are used
as carriers. The research on vector vaccines has a history of nearly 20 years.
There are many kinds of animal vaccines involved. MD vaccines and ND vaccines
with fowlpox virus as carriers have been approved all over the world, but so far
it has not been widely promoted and applied. not much. The reason is that the
maternal antibody of the carrier or the previous immunization interferes with
the immune efficacy of the recombinant vaccine. Some recombinant viruses have
been cultured on cells for many times, resulting in poor replication in animals.
Both aspects make the recombinant vaccines To be improved.
Among the four types of products, there are DNA vaccines. Its advantage is
that it can induce cellular immunity and humoral immunity at the same time.
However, the effectiveness of its DNA release into APC needs to be improved. It
must be acceptable in terms of safety, immune effectiveness and price. Use in
livestock and poultry has a long way to go.
(3) Improvements
According to the epidemic and control of animal diseases in my country, the
focus of new vaccine research should be on the following types of diseases. The
first is that the country needs a regional eradication program and a nationwide
eradication program. According to the experience of countries around the world
in implementing this plan and successfully eradicating some infectious diseases,
there are stages from stopping the use of all conventional live vaccines
(inactivated vaccines can be used) to stopping the use of all vaccines in this
process. It will be longer. At this time, new vaccines that can replace the
existing conventional live vaccines and inactivated vaccines are needed. The
response of these vaccines can be distinguished from the response of wild virus
infection; it should be able to supplement the lack of conventional inactivated
vaccines that do not produce cellular immunity and effective local immunity.
Second, the existing conventional vaccines have major shortcomings, and
conventional methods are used to improve a type of disease that is difficult to
overcome in the short term, such as PRRS. The third is important bacterial
diseases that traditionally rely on antibiotics to control. The use of such
vaccines can greatly reduce the amount of antibiotics in livestock and poultry.
Fourth, for some important infectious diseases that currently have good
conventional vaccines, the developed new vaccines should have 1 or 2 important
characteristics that are much better than conventional vaccines, so they can be
used as a supplement to conventional vaccines.
Special attention should be paid to the research of new animal vaccines in
the future: the development of a new vaccine should be combined with the
molecular epidemiological study of the pathogen in a country and region; for
some diseases whose immune mechanism is not clear, such as pigs PRRS and PVC-2
infection, chicken infectious disease anemia and REV infection, etc., vaccine
development must be based on the study of pathogenesis and immune mechanism;
combined with pathogen genomics and proteomics research.
In the 21st century, human beings have entered the post-genome era, and it
is not too long to determine the complete genetic sequences of most important
infectious pathogens. At present, most viral pathogens have complete genetic
sequences. In recent years, the complete genome of pathogenic bacteria has been
completed every year. Group sequences are more than 20 kinds. Some new
technology platforms based on the entire genome sequence of pathogens, such as
reverse genetic technology of RNA viruses, and technology of producing
infectious viruses by subgenome cosmid fragments of DNA viruses, provide a
broader space for the development of a new generation of virus vaccines. Reverse
vaccinology, developed on the basis of bacterial genomics and proteomics, uses
large-scale, high-throughput, automated, and computer analysis research methods
to screen a large number of bacteria from the whole genome level in a short
period of time. Candidate antigens for protective immune response, and the
completion of cloning, expression and purification will undoubtedly open up a
new way for the development of new vaccines for some complex pathogens,
especially bacterial pathogens. The development of vaccines for subgroup B
Neisseria meningitidis is a success. example. But no matter what kind of new
vaccine, in addition to safety, improving the immune efficacy in commercial
animal groups is still a difficulty that needs to be overcome.
3. The impact of my country's animal vaccine policy
(1) The animal vaccine industry is significantly regulated by policies
Animal vaccines are mainly divided into economic animal products (pigs,
chickens, cattle, sheep, etc.) and pet products. Most of the pet products use
imported vaccines. The market share of domestic enterprises is extremely low,
and import substitution still takes time, so Generally speaking, animal vaccines
only refer to economic animal products. Animal vaccines are a policy-sensitive
industry. On the one hand, the breeding industry itself is subject to policy
regulation. For example, in recent years, environmental protection pressures
have led to a sharp decline in pig stocks, which indirectly affects the demand
for animal vaccines. On the other hand, the production of animal vaccines
involves biosecurity. It is also strictly controlled by the Ministry of
Agriculture, including applications for designated production qualifications,
new veterinary drug certificates, and production document numbers, all requiring
strict approval. Especially in terms of compulsory immunization vaccines, it is
precisely because of policy restrictions that manufacturers of foot-and-mouth
disease and highly pathogenic avian influenza have been kept in the single
digits. In addition, the advancement of mandatory immunization policies in
history has also led to explosive growth in the vaccine market.
(2) Industry policy review
Industry programmatic document "National Medium and Long-term Animal
Disease Control Plan (2012-2020)"
On May 2, 2012, the National Medium and Long-term Animal Disease Prevention
and Control Plan (2012-2020) was reviewed and approved by the executive meeting
of the State Council and promulgated and implemented by the General Office of
the State Council. This is the first comprehensive plan to guide the prevention
and control of animal diseases nationwide since the founding of New China,
marking that the prevention and control of animal diseases has entered a new
stage of planning and scientific prevention and control.
According to the plan, my country has 29 types of animal diseases that are
prioritized for prevention and control. Among them, there are 5 domestic
first-class animal diseases, including foot-and-mouth disease (type A, Asian
type I, and type O), highly pathogenic avian influenza, Highly pathogenic swine
blue ear disease, swine fever, Newcastle disease.
Animal diseases with priority control and key prevention
The plan proposes that by 2020, 16 domestic animal diseases that are
prioritized for prevention and control, including foot-and-mouth disease and
highly pathogenic avian influenza, will meet the assessment standards set by the
plan, and the incidence of pigs, poultry, cattle, and sheep will drop to 5%, 6%,
Below 4%, 3%, animal morbidity, mortality and public health risks are
significantly reduced. The risk of introduction and spread of 13 key foreign
animal diseases, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy and African swine
fever, has been effectively reduced, and the ability to prevent and handle
foreign animal diseases has been significantly improved.
The "two in and two out" policy will be implemented in 2017
On July 21, 2016, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Finance
issued the "Notice on Adjusting and Improving Support Policies for the
Prevention and Control of Animal Diseases". The main contents include: 1) The
state continues to impose compulsory measures on foot-and-mouth disease, highly
pathogenic avian influenza, and petit ruminants. Immunization and compulsory
culling; 2) Bringing brucellosis into the scope of compulsory immunization in
provinces (type 1 areas) where brucellosis is severely affected, and expanding
the range of livestock species for brucellosis and tuberculosis compulsory
culling from dairy cows to all cattle and sheep; 3 1) Equilibrium and
horse-borne poverty shall be included in the scope of compulsory culling; 4)
Hydatid disease will be included in the scope of compulsory immunization and
compulsory culling in the provinces severely affected by hydatid disease; 5) For
swine fever and highly pathogenic pig blue ear The national compulsory
immunization policy will not be implemented for the time being. The country will
formulate guidelines for the prevention and treatment of swine fever and highly
pathogenic blue ear disease, and various localities will carry out prevention
and control work according to actual conditions; 6) The plan will be implemented
from January 1, 2017.
The 13th Five-Year Plan for veterinary health undertakings is released, and
the supervision of the whole chain will be strengthened
Development goals: The plan points out that by 2020, the concentration and
competitiveness of the veterinary drug industry will be further improved, with
medium-sized and above production enterprises accounting for more than 70%, and
capacity utilization rate increasing by more than 10%. At the end of the 13th
Five-Year Plan, the qualified rate of veterinary drug product quality random
inspections has stabilized at over 95%. The slaughter volume of hog slaughter
companies above designated size accounted for more than 80%, the slaughter rate
of live pigs dropped by more than 10%, and the “small, scattered and chaotic”
situation of hog slaughterhouses was basically improved.
Key tasks: Planned control and purification of key diseases: foot-and-mouth
disease and highly pathogenic avian influenza continue to implement compulsory
immunization. Intensify regional management of brucellosis, and promote the
monitoring and purification of farms and key breeding areas. The prevention and
treatment of tuberculosis in dairy cows is a combination of risk assessment,
mobile control and quarantine and culling. Rabies focuses on strengthening
immunization and epidemic surveillance, and coordinating and promoting canine
registration management. Schistosomiasis focuses on the control of livestock
infection sources, and implements comprehensive agricultural management.
Implement preventive measures such as deworming and immunization for
echinococcosis, and strengthen quarantine and slaughter management. Highly
pathogenic swine blue-ear disease, swine fever, Newcastle disease,
salmonellosis, avian leukemia, swine pseudorabies and porcine reproductive and
respiratory syndrome, strengthen the source monitoring and purification.
Maintain the nationwide epidemic-free status of equine meliosis, and strive to
eliminate equine infectious anemia nationwide by 2020. In-depth implementation
of the "National Pediatric Ruminant Disease Elimination Plan (2016-2020)", and
strive to 2020, with the exception of the land border counties (group farms)
adjacent to the Pestle Ruminant epidemic country or the immune isolation zone
within 30 kilometers along the border , The rest of the country has reached the
standards of non-immune-free areas. Preventing the risk of imported animal
diseases: adhere to the combination of dredging and blocking, focusing on
preventing the African swine fever, bovine spongiform encephalopathy and other
foreign animal diseases identified in the National Medium and Long-term Animal
Disease Prevention and Control Plan (2012-2020).
Main changes: The "13th Five-Year Plan" proposes to build an information
system for the entire chain of veterinary health supervision services,
emphasizing the supervision of the entire chain from breeding to slaughter,
especially the supervision of the slaughter industry.
(3) The impact of policies on animal vaccine innovation
As far as animal vaccines are concerned, conventional vaccines are still
the mainstay in the world, and this is also true in my country. Conventional
vaccines will still dominate the market for a long time to come. This is
because: ①The development cycle of genetic engineering vaccines is long, and the
safety evaluation requirements are stricter; ②There are not many vaccines whose
immune efficacy reaches or exceeds that of conventional vaccines. Currently,
there are only gene deletion vaccines such as pseudorabies and salmonella and E.
coli vaccines for piglet dysentery. A few; ③There are many genetically
engineered vaccines under development, their production costs are high, and the
acceptability of prices is a big problem.
Based on the above situation, the research of livestock and poultry
vaccines in my country should have two approaches: one is conventional vaccine
research, using new conventional vaccines to supplement or replace existing
conventional vaccines; the second is to increase the research and development of
new vaccines and develop new vaccines that can be used High-efficiency vaccines
for livestock and poultry infectious disease control and elimination programs.
Three aspects of the development of livestock and poultry vaccines will be
discussed below: ①The main shortcomings of conventional vaccines and the room
for research and improvement; ②The demand for new vaccines and the new vaccines
that have been used and are under research; ③The future development direction of
new vaccines.
With the advancement of vaccine research technology in my country and the
upgrading of vaccine R&D and production equipment, the level of vaccine
production and inspection technology in my country has been greatly improved,
and the quality of products has been significantly improved. The quality of many
products is higher than that of similar foreign products. The speed of product
upgrading and the price are accelerated. There has been an increase, and the
profit margin has also increased. Traditional inactivated vaccines, attenuated
vaccines, bioreactors, high-density fermentation, immune adjuvants,
heat-resistant freeze-dried protective agents and other technological
advancements have accelerated, product quality has been accelerated,
conventional poultry vaccines have basically replaced imported vaccines, and
swine vaccines It is also rapidly replacing imported vaccines. Genetically
engineered high-tech vaccines such as genetically engineered deletion vaccines,
synthetic peptide vaccines, subunit vaccines, and live vector vaccines have
entered the vaccine market. DNA vaccines and genetically modified plant vaccines
will also enter the vaccine market. I believe that these high-tech vaccines will
continue to replace The entry of traditional animal vaccines into the market
will definitely promote the prosperity and development of the animal vaccine
market.
As the market has higher and higher requirements for product quality, the
cancellation of government bidding and the liberalization of market seedling
sales will be the general trend, and the price increase brought about by the
improvement of quality will promote the expansion of the industry.
The large-scale animal husbandry industry has increasingly stringent
requirements for vaccine safety, protection effectiveness, quality, and ease of
use of vaccines. In response to the needs of the industry, the research and
development of the animal vaccine industry in recent years has focused on new
adjuvants, antigen purification, high-throughput screening of cell lines or
virus strains, and suspension culture.
Vaccines are biological products that are extremely sensitive to the
external environment. If they are not stored in a suitable temperature range,
their effectiveness will decrease or even be completely destroyed. Especially in
rural areas with weak infrastructure-these areas are usually very in need of
animal vaccines, and vaccines are often spoiled and ineffective. With the
development and emphasis of various provinces on the cold chain system in recent
years, the above situation has been well improved. The cold chain is the whole
process of maintaining the quality of vaccines in the best condition. The
initial link of the cold chain is the vaccine manufacturer. After specific links
such as transportation, storage, and management, the end of the vaccination is
completed. In all links of the cold chain, vaccines must always be kept strictly
within a narrow allowable temperature range to avoid potential safety hazards in
vaccination. The improvement of the cold chain system will expand the market for
animal vaccines in more regions.
At present, most of the animal vaccine companies in my country have weak
research and development capabilities, with little investment in new product
development, lack of strong technical support for new product development, and
lack of independent innovation capabilities. Only a few companies have the
ability to develop new vaccines. According to statistics from the China
Veterinary Medicine Association, the total R&D investment in the industry in
2010 was 445 million yuan, and the average R&D investment of each animal
vaccine company was only a few million yuan. Compared with foreign companies'
R&D investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, the gap is very obvious.
The industry's overall weak R&D capability and low R&D investment have
affected the development of the domestic animal vaccine industry to a certain
extent.
The animal vaccine industry is an industry with knowledge and technology products as its core competitiveness. I believe that with the deepening of the government’s reform of streamlining administration and delegating powers, and the continuous improvement of government bidding and procurement policies, the animal vaccine industry will surely return to its true colors, and knowledge and technology products will surely become The core competitiveness of animal vaccine companies. Innovation-driven, brand-driven, and market-driven development have become new driving forces for enterprise development. It is a development trend that the market share of vaccines will exceed the share of government procurement of vaccines. Reform drives innovation, and innovation drives development. Innovation is an inexhaustible driving force for the development of animal vaccine companies and industries. Since animal vaccines account for a small proportion of the production costs of modern-scale breeding enterprises, as a precaution, modern-scale breeding enterprises have a strong demand for high-quality animal vaccines. If an animal vaccine company wants to meet the needs of the production market and achieve sustainable development, it must have a powerful "engine". This "engine" is the company's own R&D organization. The R&D organization needs to have the actual combat capability to solve practical problems and also need to have With foresight and foresight, it can put forward strategic research topics and development directions. Therefore, future animal vaccine companies need to strengthen the introduction and training of talents in their own research institutions, establish and improve their own research institutions, give full play to their resource advantages, actively cooperate with domestic and foreign research and development institutions to innovate, and continue to develop new animal vaccine products. Vaccine companies give confidence to the domestic aquaculture industry. As the research and development of a new animal vaccine product costs tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of yuan, a company is often unbearable. Therefore, voluntary combination research and development consortia between companies and companies, vaccine research institutes and companies, and universities and companies are increasing. They closely follow the forefront of international science and technology and face the demand of the production market. They have developed new animal vaccine products one after another.
It is not enough to have a good engine. Although most animal vaccine manufacturers are currently undergoing the transformation of high-end vaccines in the market, not all companies can produce high-quality vaccines. Although the production principle is simple, the production process is complicated. In addition, a high level of production management, quality control procedures, and a strong sense of responsibility are required. Details often determine success or failure. This is also the core reason why the quality of domestic vaccines has long been difficult to match the international giants. The stable quality of existing production products is the basis of market stability. The design of product quality, product control, and product process innovation in this link all require the company to attach great importance to the on-the-job training of key production technicians and the cultivation of corporate loyalty. Important, this process is a long-term process for the company. The brand and credibility of the company are slowly cultivated, not overnight, but the company must also have a certain emergency response capability and prepare a series of emergency prevention in case of emergency.