• What is Pinkeye?
• Economic cost
• Predisposing factors
• Clinical signs
• Treatment
• Prevention

• Mode of action
• Dose rate & administration
• Vaccination schedule
• Efficacy & safety
• Cross-reactivity
• Why vaccinate?
• OH&S
• Product lnformation

What is Pinkeye?

Coopers Piliguard Pinkeye Vaccine is a unique new vaccine to the Australian market
– the first commercially available Pinkeye vaccine for cattle in Australia.


A number of micro-organisms can contribute to the establishment of Infectious Bovine Keratoconjunctivitis (IBK), Cattle Pinkeye, or Blight. These may be viral or bacterial (including Mycoplasma spp). The primary infectious agent involved in pinkeye is the bacterium Moraxella bovis, which is carried in the nasal and ocular (eye) secretions of carrier animals. M. bovis attaches to the surface of the eye using pili and damages it by producing toxins and haemolysins which erode the cornea and cause ulceration and severe inflammation.Flies play an important role in physically transferring the infective organism from infected to naïve non-infected stock.


Pinkeye is considered to be an economically important disease throughout Australia. A recent Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) report estimates that the disease costs Australian beef farmers $23.5 million annually in lost production and treatment costs.




Coopers PILIGUARD Pinkeye 1-Trivalent Vaccine

• The only commercially available vaccine against Moraxella bovis in Australia*


• Single dose vaccine


• Formalin inactivated cultures of three M. bovis isolates in an oil emulsion adjuvant


• Aids in the prevention of pinkeye associated with infection by M. bovis strains
   expressing pili similar to those expressed by the isolates used in the production
   of the vaccine (FLA 64, SAH 38, EPP 63)