He doesn't recommend giving lepto or Lyme vaccines (and doesn't use these shots for his own dogs, even living in lepto and Lyme endemic areas), because of the high risk and
low efficacy of these vaccines.
Not exact matches
They could potentially play a role in the event
of a pandemic, in this case by «antigen sparing», allowing
efficacy with
lower doses
of the influenza antigen — thereby allowing faster production
of more doses
of the
vaccine as early as possible in the pandemic.
The findings were published In the New England Journal
of Medicine (NEJM) and concluded that
vaccines designed to induce higher levels
of V1V2 antibodies and
lower Env - specifc IgA antibodies could result in improved
efficacy against HIV - 1 infection.
Bacterial
vaccines have
low efficacy rates coupled with high incidence
of adverse reactions.