Sentences with phrase «immune competence»

Today's treatments must consider the broad matrix of interrelating factors that effect immune competence, nutritional adequacy, individual genetic and environmental differences, toxins, and viruses for which no antibiotics yet exist.

Reduced genetic diversity of the major histocompatibility complex also does not correspond to lowered immune competence [34, 35].

Older dogs can be expected to experience a decreased metabolic rate, decreased immune competence and greater susceptibility to infection, and reduced thermoregulation.

The restoration of the health - promoting alkaline state is essential to the regeneration of bone health, immune competence, and overall well - being.

In creating your pet's vaccination plan, we will take into consideration their lifestyle such as exposure to the outdoors, travel plans, breed, health status, and immune competence.

If recurrent, severe FHV - 1 induced disease develops frequently in a cat, then laboratory testing to rule in or rule out various diseases that may decrease a cat's immune competence and as such predispose the patient to frequent recurrences should be considered (e.g., FeLV, FIV, FIP etc).

In creating your pet's vaccination plan, we will take into consideration your pet's lifestyle such as exposure to the outdoors, travel and boarding plans, breed, health status and immune competence.

Dr Schultz has further speculated that for most dogs, revaccination is probably only necessary every three years, although the persistence of immune competence may vary, since modified live virus vaccines stimulate a stronger response from the animal than do killed vaccines.

This year a very cold winter was followed by a wet spring, and this may have affected the immune competence of the animals, making them more vulnerable to the bacteria.