Sentences with phrase «panleukopenia means»

A blood count may reveal a decrease in all types of white blood cells; that is actually what panleukopenia means.

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For cats, this means administration of the FVRCP vaccination, which provides protection against panleukopenia and the two upper respiratory viruses, herpes and calici, at the time of intake.

While it is true that both feline panleukopenia virus (FPV) and its close corollary canine parvovirus (CPV) are «antigenically stable» — meaning they don't change rapidly the way flu and other viruses do, thus allowing vaccines to remain very effective — animals in shelters across the country are still losing their lives daily to these diseases.

So the fact that your pet no longer has detectable antibodies to say, canine distemper or parvo, or to feline leukemia or panleukopenia does not mean it is no longer immune to those diseases.

To illustrate what I mean by this, I would like to briefly discuss aspects of three of these vaccine diseases — chronic canine distemper, chronic rabies, and chronic feline panleukopenia.