Despite widespread recommendations for annual revaccination, information available today suggests that current vaccination practices in North America do not necessarily correspond with the body of knowledge pertaining to
duration of immunity from licensed vaccines.
Home / NEWS & MEDIA / Vanguard ® Rapid Resp Becomes First and Only Vaccine Licensed to Provide Dogs with One - Year
Duration of Immunity from Three Canine Infectious Respiratory Diseases
Not exact matches
All proceeds (less direct costs) benefit the Rabies Challenge Fund Charitable Trust, a nonprofit working to prove the
duration of immunity conveyed by the rabies vaccine with the goal
of increasing the period between rabies shots
from 3 years to 5, then 7.
With new medical insights available about the
duration of immunity provided by vaccines, most veterinarians have updated their recommendation
from the traditional once - a-year schedule to once every three years, or even less frequently depending on the individual animal.
Once this booster is given studies show the
duration of immunity anywhere
from 8 - 15 years and most likely lifetime.
In the
Duration of Immunity to Canine Vaccines: What We Know and What We Don't Know, Proceedings — Canine Infectious Diseases: From Clinics to Molecular Pathogenesis, Ithaca, NY, 1999, Dr Ronald Schultz, a veterinary immunologist at the forefront of vaccine research and chair of the University of Wisconsin's Department of Pathobiological Sciences, outlines the duration of immunity for the following v
Duration of Immunity to Canine Vaccines: What We Know and What We Don't Know, Proceedings — Canine Infectious Diseases: From Clinics to Molecular Pathogenesis, Ithaca, NY, 1999, Dr Ronald Schultz, a veterinary immunologist at the forefront of vaccine research and chair of the University of Wisconsin's Department of Pathobiological Sciences, outlines the duration of immunity for the following v
Immunity to Canine Vaccines: What We Know and What We Don't Know, Proceedings — Canine Infectious Diseases:
From Clinics to Molecular Pathogenesis, Ithaca, NY, 1999, Dr Ronald Schultz, a veterinary immunologist at the forefront
of vaccine research and chair
of the University
of Wisconsin's Department
of Pathobiological Sciences, outlines the
duration of immunity for the following v
duration of immunity for the following v
immunity for the following vaccines:
Duration of vaccine
immunity has been withheld
from the pet owning public for obvious reasons.
In 2003, the American Animal Hospital Association Canine Vaccine Task Force evaluated the data
from these challenge and serological studies and, while noting that the core vaccines had a minimum
duration of immunity of at least seven years, compromised in 2003 with the statement that «revaccination every 3 years is considered protective.»
«The demonstration
of a one - year
duration of immunity for all three antigens in Vanguard Rapid Resp represents an important step in the protection
of dogs
from CIRD.
In 2003, the American Animal Hospital Association Canine Vaccine Task Force evaluated the data
from Dr Schultz's work and, while noting that the core vaccines had a minimum
duration of immunity of at least seven years, compromised by saying that «revaccination every 3 years is considered protective.»
This table is
from Dr Schultz's research on over 1,000 dogs and shows the
duration of immunity of the core vaccines
from both challenge (exposure to the real virus) and serology (antibody titer results):
Duration of immunity — the amount
of time an animal is protected
from a disease after vaccination — for rabies vaccines is at least three years.