Sentences with phrase «protective antibody levels»

For people who board their pets in facilities which require annual vaccinations, protective antibody levels actually provide more precise information about a pet's immune status than a simple history of receiving vaccinations.

Veterinarian W. Jean Dodds has published her pilot study evaluation of giving a half - dose of canine distemper and parvovirus to small dogs to see whether they develop protective antibody levels in their serum.

Not exact matches

In both cases, virus neutralization tests indicated that the vaccine induced high levels of antibodies that block Zika infection — levels that peaked after several weeks and thereafter remained high enough to be protective, potentially for years.

That suggests that obese individuals may be at risk for flu infections even if their blood antibodies reach what have been considered protective levels, she said.

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.

Surprisingly, the researchers found that participants with high levels of NA antibodies experienced a more robust protective effect from the vaccine than did those in the high HA group.

They also suggest their findings point to the possibility of combining protective antibodies with an eventual vaccine, which could synergistically provide more a robust level of protection against Zika.

Only women who have previously suffered from placental malaria develop substantial levels of protective antibodies that prevent the adhesion of red blood cells to placental CSA.

It's not clear how long the immune response would be there for, and if a diminishing level of antibody might be protective or even disease - enhancing.

The process can reduce levels of protective antibodies and some nutrients in the stored milk, but this shouldn't be a problem if you are breastfeeding at least some of the time.

Ideally, you should get Tdap during the third trimester — but no later than 36 weeks, to allow at least 2 weeks for your body to build up the maximum levels of protective antibodies, says Dr. Rasmussen.

They show appropriate increases in antibody levels after vaccination which are protective against these illnesses.

If a breeding female already has high levels of protective antibodies, she does not need the vaccine before mating.

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

p. 12 «Because dogs older than 14 - 16 wk of age are not likely to have interfering levels of MDA [maternally derived antibodies], administration of a single initial dose of an infectious vaccine to an adult dog can be expected to induce a protective immune response.

Blood titers can help determine whether an animal's antibody count is at protective levels.

Obtaining a blood sample and checking the dog for protective levels of antibody is a safer option.

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.

A titer test checks to determine the level of protective antibodies.

... the dogs whose rabies vaccinations were expired had protective levels of antibodies BEFORE the booster shots.

These animals had serum antibody to canine distemper virus (CDV), canine parvovirus type 2 (CPV - 2) and canine adenovirus type - 1 (CAV - 1) at levels considered protective and when challenged with these viruses, the dogs resisted infection and / or disease.

We can also measure whether your dog needs a booster by testing their vaccine titres to see whether they have antibodies at a protective level against distemper and parvo.

She admits that it «wasn't very easy» to convince her veterinarian that, in lieu of vaccinations, Casey should receive an antibody titer test to determine whether she had what vaccination experts regard as a «protective level» of circulating antibodies from past vaccinations.