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Active Immunity
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Veterinary Medicine
Undergraduate 2
07/15/2013

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Term
Active Immunity
Definition

Memory T and B cells

 

Immunization

 

 

Term
Immunization
Definition
Activates animals own immune systems
Term
Types of Vaccines
Definition

Killed

 

Attenuated

 

Recombinant 

 

Live

Term
Killed Vaccines
Definition

Nedds Adjuvant

 

Inactivated 

 

Rabies

 

 

 

Term
Advantages to Killed Vaccines
Definition

Safe in pregnant and nursing animals

 

No reverse to virulence

 

No shedding 

 

No recostitution necessary

Term
Disadvantages to Killed Vaccine
Definition

Two doses often needed for response 

 

Shorter duration of immunity

 

Adjuvants frequently required 

 

Increased hypersensitivity reaction 

 

 

Term
Modified Live Vaccine
Definition

Attenuated strain of the agent that causes a disease 

 

Hope will not cause disease, will cause immunation to disease 

Term
Advantages of Modified Live
Definition

Better stimulation of CMI/interferon 

 

Reduced allergenicity

 

Overcomes maternal Ab interference 

Term
Disadvantages of Modified Live
Definition

Higher incidence of vaccine-induced disease 

 

Virus shedding

 

Virus repliction 

 

Easily inactivated by mishandling 

 

Short shelf life

Term
Recombinant Vaccine
Definition
Created by utilizing another virus or bacteria to produce large quanities of a single viral or bacterial protien
Term
Advantages of Recombinant Vaccine
Definition

No reversion to virulence

 

Non-adjuvanted 

Term
Disadvantage of Recombinant Vaccines
Definition
Expense
Term
Bacterin
Definition

Killed bacterial particles 

 

High antigen load

 

Adjuvants

 

May cause production of too many different kinds of antibodies 

 

High hypersensitivity reactions

 

Lepto

Term
Toxoid
Definition

Contains inactivated antigenic toxin

 

Tatanus

Term
Reconstitution
Definition
Appropriate refriferation, reconstitution, and dose
Term
Routes of Administrations
Definition

IM - equine 

 

SQ - distal thigh/shoulder

 

Intranasal - increases humoral immunity 

 

Transdermal - vet jet 

Term
Core Vaccines
Definition

Rabies - r hind leg 

 

 

Term
Postvaccinal Adverse Events
Definition

Anaphylaxis

 

Immune mediated reactions 

Term
Vaccination Schedules for Neonates
Definition

Multiple doses 3-4 weeks apart after 8 weeks of age up to 16 weeks of age 

 

RABIES REQUIRED AT 4 MONTHS OF AGE

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