Sentences with phrase «immunity than vaccines»

Toxoids tend to have shorter durations of immunity than vaccines.

Not exact matches

It's cumbersome and more expensive than oral vaccine alone, but recent studies show that the combination boosts immunity faster.

Vaccines 2.0 Rather than take Han's broader approach, Stanford University's Mark Davis, director of the Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection, is focusing on unraveling one specific piece of the puzzle: the immune response to flu vaccination.

«Our finding will not help develop a vaccine because the focus is on innate immunity rather than the virus,» Huang said.

All plants and animals have a built - in resistance to pathogens called innate immunity that is more basic and general than the better - known adaptive immunity that responds to specific infections or vaccines.

The newer formulation of the vaccine, introduced 20 years ago, is simply less effective than its older counterpart at conferring prolonged immunity.

A vaccine would be especially effective in people who have never been exposed to the disease before, or who lost their childhood immunity by leaving malaria - stricken areas, Lanar says, because these groups are more vulnerable to very severe forms of the illness than those who are partially immune.

Vaccination coverage is more important than the vaccine's specific effectiveness because of the concept of «herd immunity,» Sah explained.

The intra-nasal Bordetella vaccine may produce immunity slightly faster than the injectible vaccine, and remains my vaccine of choice for kennel cough.

A: Veterinarians have traditionally vaccinated annually; however, they are now learning that some vaccines induce immunity that lasts less than one year, whereas others may induce immunity that lasts well beyond one year.

Research has shown that the immunity triggered by some vaccines actually last longer than a year and most universities are recommending tailoring schedules to maximize each patient's immune responses and minimize potential complications.

The Bordetella vaccine is generally given intranasally (in the nose), which many hospitals feel provide better immunity than the traditional injected form of the vaccine.

Many leading researchers and specialists now believe that several of the vaccines that we routinely give to dogs and cats have a greater duration of immunity than had previously been thought.

The Bordetella vaccination, commonly referred to as the Kennel Cough vaccine, has been shown to have a duration of immunity of less than one year.

The «localized immunity» the dog receives via the intranasal vaccine appears to offer better protection than the shot.

Current vaccines may provide immunity for less than a year so dogs with potentially high exposure may need more than yearly vaccination.

The second vaccine must be given no later than 3 weeks after the first vaccine or your pet may not acquire adequate immunity.

They pointed to scientific evidence that some vaccines afford more than a single year of immunity.

Understand that despite the fact that my barn cat is outdoors and technically has a better danger of publicity, given the period of immunity of the panleukopenia vaccine, he is not vaccinated with FVRCP any extra regularly than my indoor - solely cats.

Since this vaccine is for a bacteria, the duration of effective immunity is much shorter than for viral vaccines (such as for Rabies virus).

They say some pets derive weaker immunity than others from vaccines, another argument for annual shots.

Your options other than annual vaccination are many: have titers done to test your dog's immunity and only vaccinate when immunity has dropped; discuss with your veterinarian what vaccinations you may be able to safely omit for your dog; insist that vaccinations be given one at a time to avoid increasing their risks; ask your veterinarian to sign a waiver so that your dog does not need to get the rabies vaccine, especially if you have seen a reaction to this vaccine in the past.

We don't repeat vaccinations for parvo and distemper because we need vaccines more than once to form immunity.

Most people and even many veterinarians believe that more than one vaccine is needed to «prime» the immune system or build immunity, but in the case of modified live virus vaccines for parvo and distemper, this isn't really necessary.

Some veterinarians began collecting evidence indicating that the duration of immunity of particular vaccines may be longer than previously thought.

This allows local immunity to develop on the mucous membranes of the nose, throat, and windpipe where the infectious agents first attack and provides more rapid protection against infection than the injectable vaccine.

Long - term studies of animal immunity would require a substantial outlay of money — the kind of money that only the drug companies have, and Big Pharma is much more interested in selling more vaccines than challenging the need for them.

Giving vaccines closer together than every 2 weeks is actually likely to result in less immunity, not more.

For a vaccine to generate solid long - lasting immunity, the infection must be fairly generalized to the entire body (such as feline distemper or canine parvovirus) rather than localized to one organ system (such as kennel cough or feline upper respiratory viruses).