A nursing female dog should be treated concurrently with her pups; nursing may
reactivate infection in the female.
Nursing females should be treated concurrently with their pups to avoid
reactivating infection.
Not exact matches
In one study, which is based on the Betula project, a study on aging, memory and dementia, the researchers show that a
reactivated herpes
infection doubled the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
Previous studies already had established that E. coli bacteria can create dormant hiding places for E. coli in the bladder and later be
reactivated to cause
infection.
After initial
infection, HSV enters a latent state in sensory nerve cells, periodically
reactivating to produce disease.
Now the WHO is predicting that by the year 2000
infection with HIV will
reactivate TB in a million people.
In the United States, tuberculosis remains an important preventable disease, including active tuberculosis
infection, which may be infectious, and latent
infection (LTBI), which is asymptomatic and not infectious but can later
reactivate and progress to active disease.
The combined use of therapeutic vaccination and specific drugs that can
reactivate latent reservoir virus (Kick and kill strategies) hold the promise to achieve a functional cure for HIV
infection.
Stress can also
reactivate latent
infections — people who get cold sores know this from experience.
Whether the swollen ear flaps sometimes seen with Atopic use are due it its affect on skin or
reactivated ear
infections and increased scratching is unknown.
But if your immune system becomes suppressed, an old
infection can become
reactivated.
Latent
infections may be
reactivated by: stress, immunosuppressive therapy, complement depletion, and serious concurrent disease.
Reactivated latent
infections may result in relapsing or persistent viremia with shedding of virus in the saliva.
If a pregnant dog had hookworms in the past, the pregnancy may
reactivate dormant larvae, which then enter the female's bloodstream and infect the puppies in the uterus (prenatal
infection).
(ref) Things like stress, corticosteroids or other viral
infections like FIV can weaken the cat's immune system enough to
reactivate the virus once again.
Pregnancy and nursing may
reactivate a dormant hookworm
infection in the female dog, which will then infect her puppies.