Sentences with phrase «modified live virus»

These complications are exceedingly rare but still possible with modified live virus vaccine.

For dogs older than 16 weeks of age, two doses of vaccine containing modified live virus (MLV) CPV, CDV, and CAV - 2 given 3 - 4 weeks apart are recommended.

According to the NCSU guidelines, challenge tests have shown that vaccination with modified live virus vaccine for canine distemper has protected dogs from the disease five to seven years after inoculation.

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.

Many dog owners are still not being advised that there is no scientific evidence to support annual OR triennial revaccination with core modified live virus (MLV) vaccines for parvovirus, distemper virus and adenovirus.

The FIP vaccine is an intranasal modified live virus product.

Avoid modified live virus vaccines whenever possible.

Vaccine is available in the traditional modified live virus format, where distemper virus is modified to induce immune - response but not illness.

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.

For initial kitten vaccination (< 16 weeks), one dose of parenteral vaccine containing modified live virus (MLV) FHV1, FCV, and FPV is recommended every 3 - 4 weeks from 6 - 8 weeks of age, with the final booster being given no sooner than 16 weeks of age.

Modified live virus vaccinations are slightly immunosuppressive for a couple of weeks in most dogs.

In August 2013, I forwarded a letter to Professor Ronald Schultz of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association's Vaccination Guidelines Group, challenging the confusing and misleading use of the term «booster» in relation to canine core modified live virus (MLV) vaccines for parvovirus, distemper virus and adenovirus, suggesting that use of the term «booster» is resulting in extensive over-vaccination of already immune dogs.

Dr Ian Tizard states: «With modified live virus vaccines like canine parvovirus, canine distemper and feline panleukopenia, calicivirus, and rhinotracheitis the virus in the vaccine must replicate to stimulate the immune system.

To prevent kennel cough, dogs should be vaccinated with attenuated or modified live virus vaccines for distemper and Para influenza viruses.

The NCSU protocol «highly recommended» vaccination with a modified live virus vaccine and noted that dogs are still protected against parvo when challenged by the disease as much as seven years later.

Modified live virus vaccines depend on the replication of the virus for a response.

The North American veterinary schools are changing their protocols for vaccinating dogs and cats to reflect the finding that a modified live virus vaccine given after six months of age produces immunity for the life of the pet.

When an annual booster vaccination with a modified live virus (MLV) vaccine (i.e. Distemper, Parvovirus or Fe Distemper) is given to a previously vaccinated adult animal - no added protection is provided.

The distemper vaccine uses a modified live virus to encourage antibody development, making it potentially dangerous to certain populations of dogs.

Ian Tizard states: «With modified live virus vaccines like canine parvovirus, canine distemper and feline panleukopenia, calicivirus, and rhinotracheitis the virus in the vaccine must replicate to stimulate the immune system.

Dr. Schultz concludes in his 2010 paper, Age and Long - term Protective Immunity in Dogs and Cats, «In general, adaptive immunity following vaccination with modified live virus (MLV) vaccines develops earliest and most effectively in that it is often complete and duration of immunity is often lifelong.»

With modified live virus vaccines (distemper, parvovirus, hepatitis), some animals can actually contract the same disease which they are being inoculated against.

It is the consensus of immunologist that a modified live virus vaccine must replicate in order to stimulate the immune system, and antibodies from a previous vaccination will block the replication of the new vaccinate virus.

I have always used the same vaccine my veterinarians use (a modified live virus).

Felocell 4 is a modified live virus vaccine for the protection of cats against Feline Panleukopenia, Rhinotracheitis, Calici Viruses and Chlamydia.

For cats older than 16 weeks of age, two doses of vaccine containing modified live virus (MLV) FHV1, FCV, and FPV given 3 - 4 weeks apart are recommended.

For initial puppy vaccination (< 16 weeks), one dose of vaccine containing modified live virus (MLV) CPV, CDV, and CAV - 2 is recommended every 3 - 4 weeks from 6 - 8 weeks of age, with the final booster being given no sooner than 16 weeks of age.

At least be sure that it's a vaccine for canine distemper which is a MODIFIED LIVE virus and was NOT cultured in ferret tissue.

If a modified live virus (MLV) vaccine is given after 6 months of age, it produces immunity, which is good for the life of the pet (i.e., canine distemper, parvo, feline distemper).

In those later cases, it was often the modified live virus in the vaccine itself that grew and caused the illness.

While the vaccine is a modified live virus and thus your dog may come down with a mild form of the disease (approximately 10 % of the time) it will not be spread to other dogs.

Thus, even a single dose of modified live virus (MLV) canine core vaccines (against CDV, cav - 2 and cpv - 2) or MLV feline core vaccines (against feline parvovirus [FPV], feline calicivirus [FCV] and feline herpesvirus [FHV]-RRB-, when administered at 16 weeks or older, could provide long - term immunity in a very high percentage of animals, while also increasing herd immunity.

However, while extremely rare, it's not completely unknown for modified live viruses to «revert to virulence» and become able to cause the very disease they were given to prevent.

It takes up to 14 days for the immune system to complete its response to a modified live virus vaccination for canine viruses.

Any seroconversion that takes place after a modified live virus vaccine for parvo, distemper, parainfluenza, or adenovirus - 2 (the «DHPP» of the combo shot) is just as good and as lasting as any other seroconversion, whether obtained from a vaccine with a one - year label claim or a three - year label claim.

If a modified live virus (MLV) vaccine is given after 6 months of age, it produces an immunity which is good for the life of the pet (i.e. canine distemper, parvo, feline distemper).

A single immunizing dose of a modified live virus vaccine - in other words, one vaccine that works - will form long term, probably lifetime, immunity to parvo and distemper.

Modified live virus vaccines provide enhanced stimulation of cell - mediated immunity as compared with inactivated vaccines, thus providing more heterosubtypic immunity (i.e., protection across subtypes).

Most common vaccines are made using a «modified live virus» (MLV), which means that the virus is alive and can replicate in the animal's body, but has been modified so it does not cause disease, or at least not severe disease.

Distemper vaccine reactions can also involve neurological signs, especially if the vaccine contains modified live virus — the Rockborn strain of virus — that is known to produce post-vaccinal encephalitis.