Vaccines Flashcards
An agent that modifies the other agent to increase the bodies response.
Adjuvant
Most vaccines…..
Do not cause a disease
What do vaccines stimulate?
The bodies immunity
Something that stimulates an immune response.
Antigen
Fights diseases by killing disease causing organisms in the body.
Antibodies
Two types of immunity.
Active and passive
Developed antibodies due to exposure to pathogens in the environment and vaccines.
Active immunity
Antibodies acquired from mother to baby after birth.
Passive immunity
When are the first vaccines started?
6-8 weeks of life
The vaccine type unlikely to cause disease.
Killed virus
Often given wig an adjuvent.
Killed vaccine
Modified to last longer and not cause the disease.
Modified live vaccine.
Use with caution in pregnant, immunosuppressed and sick patients.
Modified live
Types of bacterial vaccines.
Bacterin, toxoid, antitoxin
Examples of vaccines reactions.
Welling, hives, itching, respiratory distress
Can be delayed or acute.
Vaccine reactions
Cat vaccine reaction.
Fibrosarcoma
Two categories of vaccine choices.
Core vs elective
Core vaccines of canines.
Rabies and dapp
Core vaccines for cats.
Rabies, feline dapp
Non core vaccines of dogs.
Bordatella, lepto, Lyme
Cat non core vaccines.
FIV, FELV
A virus spread by direct contact.
Distemper
Most common virus causing death in puppies spread through contact with feces.
Parvovirus
One of the causes of kennel cough.
Parainfluenza
Causes hepatitis and often bleeding.
Adenovirus
Causes by borellia burgdorferi.
Lyme
Percentage of Lyme patients who create clinical signs.
5-10%
Shed in urine that affects liver and kidneys and is zoonotic.
Leptospirosis
Kennel cough
Bordetella
Feline distemper vaccine.
Fvrcp
Herpes virus of cats that can stay dormant and flare up
Rhinotracheitis
Causes ulcers of the mouth and nose of cats.
Calici virus
Feline distemper extremely contagious in kittens.
Panleukopenia
Shed in the saliva of cats.
FELV and FIV
Causes lymphoma and immune suppression in cats
FELV
Feline aids causing Immune suppression.
FIV
Legal vaccine.
Rabies
The non adjuvent rabies vaccine.
Pure vax for cats
Zoonotic ally transmitted through a bite.
Rabies
Two types of rabies.
Furious and dumb rabies
What is the ideal puppy series?
6-8 weeks dapp , 10-12 weeks dapp, lepto, bordatella, 13-16 weeks dapp and rabies then bolstered yearly.
Ideal kitten series.
6-8 weeks fvrcp, FELV, FIV, 10-13 weeks fvrcp, rabies, FELV, FIV then boostered annually
Where should vaccines be stored?
Refrigerator
Where is rabies always given?
Right hind leg
How do vaccines work?
They create an antibody response to he pathogen to respond when it is exposed to it again
