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Effective vaccines are urgently needed due to the limitations of current oral vaccines, including gastrointestinal degradation and low immunogenicity. This study designs and evaluates a multiepitope subunit vaccine using immunoinformatics.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Sequences of the IBDV structural proteins VP2 and VP3 were obtained from the National Centre for Biotechnology Information) NCBI. These are structural proteins VP2 and VP3 were subjected to the Vaxijen 2.0 webserver to predict the antigenicity, ToxiPred to predict the toxicity and further analyzed to identify immunogenic epitopes of Chicken Leukocyte Antigens (CLAs) using the NetMHCpan 4.1 webserver.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The final vaccine construct includes 2 HTL, 21 CTL, and 7 LBL epitopes, with gallinacin-3 precursor as an adjuvant. The construct is antigenic (0.5605), non-allergenic, and non-toxic, consisting of 494 amino acids with a molecular weight of 54.88 kDa and a positive charge (pI of 9.23). It is stable, hydrophilic, and soluble. Population coverage analysis revealed a global immune coverage of 89.83%, with the highest in Europe (99.86%) and the lowest in Central America (25.01%). Molecular docking revealed strong interactions with TLR-2_1, TLR-4, and TLR-7, with TLR-7 exhibiting the highest binding affinity (\u2212366.15 kcal\/mol). Immune simulations indicated a robust immune response, with high initial IgM levels, sustained IgG, memory cell formation, and activation of T helper (Th) cells 1 and 2, Natural Killer (NK) cells, and dendritic cells, suggesting potential long-lasting immunity against IBDV.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study presents a promising multi-epitope subunit vaccine candidate capable of effective immunization against IBDV with broad population coverage. 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