Since reasonably priced laboratory tests now exist to measure
protective antibodies against these viruses, WE RECOMMEND ANNUAL FVRCP ANTIBODY TESTING FOR ALL CATS 2 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER (All cats should have a series of FVRCP vaccinations as a kitten and a booster vaccination one year later to assure adequate protection).
Not exact matches
The theory that
antibodies protective against one type of dengue can collude with a different type of the
virus to make a second infection worse was proposed in the 1960s.
-- Hyperimmune globulin, prepared by purifying and concentrating plasma of immunized animals or previously infected humans with high titers (concentrations) of neutralizing
antibody against Ebola
virus, which have been shown to be
protective in monkeys but are not currently available and would not be expected before mid-2015.
Currently, seasonal flu vaccines are designed to induce high levels of
protective antibodies against hemagglutinin (HA), a protein found on the surface of the influenza
virus that enables the
virus to enter a human cell and initiate infection.
All three of the exposed animals not only survived the
virus but developed high amounts of
protective antibodies against it, likely protecting them
against future exposures (although the research team has not yet explored how long that immunity lasts).
A major goal of HIV - 1 vaccine development is to identify immunogens capable of inducing
protective titers of broadly neutralizing
antibodies (bNAbs)
against circulating, neutralization - resistant (tier 2)
viruses.
Ahmedâ $ ™ s team had showed that people infected by the 2009 H1N1 flu strain developed broadly
protective antibodies, and separately, so did volunteers immunized
against the H5N1 avian flu
virus.
The study, «Dengue
Virus Envelope Dimer Epitope Monoclonal
Antibodies Isolated from Dengue Patients Are
Protective against Zika
Virus,» was published in the July / August issue of mBio, the journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
The study also affirms that a vaccine that evokes the immune system to produce
protective antibodies, such as ZIKV - 117, could be effective
against the
virus.
This research was in mice, so it can't directly translate to humans, but it does suggest that a vaccine
against Zika could spur
protective antibodies that not only prevent people from getting the
virus, but could protect a pregnant woman's fetus.
Many vaccines are 100 - percent effective at producing
antibodies, but the
antibodies are not necessarily
protective against the
virus.
The results come in the form of positive (there are
protective levels of the
antibody against the
virus) or negative (there are not
protective levels of
antibody against the
virus in the blood).
So when these in - clinic tests are performed properly, it means that a positive test result demonstrates the dog or cat does have
protective levels of
antibody against the
virus.