17 - Vaccination programs for cats Flashcards
What are concerns when vaccinating cats?
Protection against severe dz, avoiding injection site sarcomas by avoiding killed vaccines and over vaccinating
What are the core vaccines of cats?
Rabies, Feline panleukopenia (auses vomiting, diarrhea, death, brain defects in kits)
Feline Herpes VIrus 1, Feline calicivirus
^^ FVRCP
What form is feline core vaccines given as?
MLV combos SQ
Called FVRCP, ever 4 weeks from 6-8wks
@ 2wks, 12wks, and 16wks
MLV panleukopenia: not to give to pregnant queens of kittens <1 month
Regive @ 1 year and then 1-3yrs
What should we keep in mind about IN FVRCP vaccine?
No interference from colostral antibody
experimentally, beneficial if given as little as 4 days b4 exposure
as early as 4 wks of age
used in shelters and situations where early protection is important (outbreaks_
often along w/ a SQ MLV vaccine to ensure panleukopenia protection
Why are killed vaccines avoided in cats?
bc higher risk of sarcoma due to adjuvants in killed vaccines
What version of rabies do cats use and why?
Canarypox vectored because there is less risk of sarcoma’s (other version is killed which have adjuvants = higher risk of sarcomas)
need to boost manually or every 3 years
a 3-year canarypox vectored vx has been liscences
What are some non-core vaccines
FeLV - core for kittens (due to increased susceptibility and unknown future lifestyle)
Aboit 4-5% of Canadian cats get infected
Virulent calicivirus vx
More virulent variant of calicivirus that causes ulcerative skin lesions, rare dz, standard vx gives partial protection, may see more strains used in vx’s in future
Feline chlamydia felis vx’s - incomplete protection, high risk of adverse side effects
feline bordetella bronchiseptica vx - dz rare in pet cats
Which 2 vaccines are most likely to cause injection site sarcomas?
FeLV and Rabies, avoid over vaccinated and killed vaccines
Where do we vaccinate for rabies, FVRCP and FeLV?
As distally as possible in LFSQ for FVRCP
Rabies - Distal RHSQ
FeLV - Distal LHSQ
