Sentences with phrase «maternal antibody»

I asked Dr. Dodds to explain what happens when a puppy is vaccinated while there is still the potential for maternal antibody interference.

Parvovirus is only generally deadly to puppies and, as maternal antibody can be present for as many as 22 weeks, and as maternal antibody cancels out the vaccine, vaccinated puppies are unlikely to be protected from parvovirus.

With kittens, antibodies (maternal antibody) may be passed from the mother to the kittens via the umbilical cord and via colostrum (the first milk).

However, in many animals, maternal antibody does not wane enough for a vaccine to be effective until 18 - 20 weeks.

In the shelter environment, we rarely know much about either, so we don't really know if maternal antibody is sufficient in any individual animal.

We could simply wait until the baby is old enough to definitely respond, as we do with the rabies vaccination, but this could leave a large window of vulnerability if the maternal antibody wanes early.

When we talk about maternal antibody interference, we use the term «window of susceptibility.»

Vaccines will not be able to «take» until maternal antibody has sufficiently dropped.

How long this maternal antibody lasts in a given puppy or kitten is totally individual.

Maternal antibody interference has been a particular problem with canine parvovirus vaccination.

This refers to the period of time an animal will be unprotected against disease, because maternal antibody levels are too low to protect from natural infection, but too high for vaccination to be successful.

In much the same way that maternal antibody interferes with the ability of a vaccine to be effective, vaccines actually interfere with each other!

This ability to essentially block a vaccine from working is what is known as maternal antibody interference.

For example, Boehringer Ingelheim's Protech C3 label suggests finishing the primary vaccination program at 10 weeks: http://www.infopest.com.au/extra/asp/infopest/nra/labels.asp?prodcode=51487 MSD Animal Health's Nobivac DHP Continuum vaccine label recommends final puppy vaccination at 10 weeks: http://www.infopest.com.au/extra/asp/infopest/nra/labels.asp?prodcode=59043 Virbac's Canigen DHA2P vaccine label recommends the second primary dose at 12 weeks also stating: «In situations where high maternal antibody and potential challenge is possible an additional vaccination should be considered at 16 weeks of age.»

There is a good argument to be made that distemper is easier to vaccinate for at a younger age, as maternal antibody is almost always gone by 8 weeks.

To avoid the potential for maternal antibody interference, dogs vaccinated at less than 9 weeks of age should receive 3 doses, each administered 3 weeks apart.

Earlier vaccination is clearly a doomed strategy, because maternal antibody wears off over time, and the puppy would have had more, not less, maternal antibody at a younger age.

Puppies whose mothers have been routinely vaccinated are also less commonly and less seriously affected, because vaccination of the dam boosts circulating maternal antibody levels in her young puppies.

It's possible for a pup to have enough maternal antibody to inactivate the parvo vaccine, but not enough to protect from disease.

Furthermore, revaccination with most viral vaccines fails to stimulate an anamnestic (secondary) response as a result of interference by existing antibody (similar to maternal antibody interference).

Although maternal antibody can last until 18 - 20 weeks in some individuals, necessitating vaccinations every two weeks until this age, there is no reason to wait for an animal to be weaned.

In the shelter, the goal is to vaccinate as frequently as possible without risk of interference until maternal antibody wanes.

In young shelter animals, vaccines begin at 4 - 6 weeks of age and continue every two to three weeks until 18 - 20 weeks of age, when maternal antibody wanes.

It is not two or three vaccines that will be protective — it is one vaccine at the precise time that an individual animal's maternal antibody wanes.

Instead, vaccines must be given at the precise time when maternal antibody has waned.

The NeoPar vaccine contains only parvo vaccine particles, so the concentration is high to be protective in the presence of maternal antibody.

And to minimize the risk of maternal antibody interference with the vaccination, the final dose of the initial series must always be given between the ages of 14 and 16 weeks.

Rabies vaccine is an exception to this, since one injection given at the proper time is enough to produce long - term immunity due to the lack of maternal antibody interference.

To avoid the potential for maternal antibody interference, dogs vaccinated at less than 9 weeks of age should receive 3 doses of the combination vaccine, each administered 3 weeks apart.

It is also important to ensure each kitten receives a final vaccination at 12 weeks of age or later in order to avoid maternal antibody interference.

In fact the presence of good humoral antibody levels blocks the anamnestic response to vaccine boosters just as maternal antibody blocks the response in some young animals.»

This increases the likelihood of long - term protection from vaccination as soon as maternal antibody levels have declined below protective levels.

Killed vaccine is the least effective at penetrating maternal antibody.

Puppies that were born first or were more aggressive at nursing on the first day, will get more maternal antibody than their littermates.

In order for protection to be achieved, vaccine must be given when it can penetrate maternal antibody.

There will be a period of about a week when there is not enough maternal antibody to protect the puppy but too much to allow a vaccine to work.

*** REMEMBER, the more maternal antibody a puppy has, the less likely a vaccine is to work and the longer one must wait for antibody to wane and for vaccination to be effective.

If there is still adequate maternal antibody present, the vaccine virus will be destroyed just as if it were a real infection.

When a high titer vaccine is used, there is still virus left over after all the maternal antibody has been used up.

If a high titer vaccine is used, there is still virus left over after all the maternal antibody has been used up.

Kitikoon P, Nilubol D, Vincent A, Yu S, Erickson B, Janke B, Hoover T, Sornsen S, Thacker E. Immune response and effect of maternal antibody interference on vaccination with a bivalent swine influenza vaccine.

Answer: It is almost unheard of for a 6 week old puppy to have parvo because they are protected from «maternal antibody» so when you say you «treated him for parvo» when he was 6 weeks, do you mean you vaccinated him for parvo?

Vaccination typically begins at 6 - 8 weeks (the age range when maternal antibody protection begins to break down), then boostered 1 - 2 more times at 2 - 3 week intervals.

However, presence of maternal antibody greatly impacted the transmission success of the most virulent strain (675A).

Reduced placental transfer of maternal antibody may explain vulnerability during infancy.

Such a vaccine would boost maternal antibody attack of HIV - 1 variants circulating in the blood, so that transmission risk is reduced when an infant is exposed to maternal blood during delivery.

A simple conclusion about the maternal lymph system is that the primary areas of maternal antibody sharing are geared toward protecting the baby from the most hazardous of diseases.

After four to six months of age babies have lost some of the protection against disease given to them by their mothers at birth (maternal antibody) and from breastmilk.

Mother gives the gift of immunity to her child with breastfeeding thru specific antibodies in breast milk (secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA), the maternal antibody immunoglobulin G (IgG), and by passing beneficial bacteria and DNA from her own gut.

Maternal antibodies just last a few weeks, and breast - feeding only extends it a little, but those few weeks cover the time when infections are most dangerous.