	US 11,980,660 B2
	Edible vaccination against microbial pathogens
Heli Salmela, Helsinki (FI); and Dalial Freitak, Helsinki (FI)
Assigned to DALAN ANIMAL HEALTH INC., Athens, GA (US)
Filed by Dalan Animal Health, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/208,797.
Application 17/208,797 is a continuation of application No. 15/747,252, granted, now 10,994,001, previously published as PCT/FI2016/050541, filed on Jul. 22, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 20155564 (FI), filed on Jul. 24, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0275658 A1, Sep. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. A61K 39/02 (2006.01); A61K 39/00 (2006.01); A61K 39/09 (2006.01)

CPC A61K 39/0208 (2013.01) [A61K 39/02 (2013.01); A61K 39/09 (2013.01); A61K 2039/521 (2013.01); A61K 2039/54 (2013.01); A61K 2039/545 (2013.01); A61K 2039/55 (2013.01); A61K 2039/60 (2013.01)]

12 Claims

1. A method of preventing Chalkbrood disease in a honey bee or a honey bee larvae caused by Ascosphaera fungus, comprising feeding a honey bee queen with an artificial insect diet comprising dead Ascosphaera fungus, wherein the artificial insect diet acts as a vaccine against the Chalkbrood disease in the honey bee or the honey bee larvae.