Parvo presents a unique difficulty with regards to getting puppies protected against it: like all mammals, puppies
receive protective antibodies from their mothers in the colostrum, or first milk, that they receive in the first 48 hours of life.
Not exact matches
If immunosuppressed individuals
receive the flu vaccine they may not get an adequate
protective antibody response.
Some puppies
receive a strong dose of
protective antibodies from colostrum and other puppies
receive very few.
Because maternal
antibodies can block the onset of a vaccine's
protective ability, puppies and kittens
receive a series of immunizations to ensure their protection.
(though isolation is still essential unless your other cats are also
antibody titre zero) the lower the queen's
antibody titre, the fewer
protective antibodies the kittens will have
received in their mother's milk the higher the queen's
antibody titre, the more
protective antibodies the kittens will have
received in their mother's milk, but also the chances of her shedding FCoV are higher about one in three cats with FCoV
antibodies is shedding FCoV at any one time
If we don't start vaccines at 8 weeks, we may have an extended period of susceptibility when the puppy doesn't have
protective antibodies from mom anymore, but still hasn't
received a vaccine to stimulate his own immunity.
This study shows that dogs
receiving a combination of dietary antioxidants maintain a
protective antibody response for longer than unsupplemented dogs.
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.
When puppies are born, they
receive many
protective antibodies against parvovirus from their mother's milk.
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.