VacciCheck® has broken the paradigm of a titer test being performed in a specialized veterinary lab with prolonged turnaround times. VacciCheck’s “claim to fame” is really quite simple: • By having VacciCheck cost similar to that of a vaccine, while testing for the 3 diseases per sample. • By being able to give a result to a pet owner within 21 minutes. These factors have revolutionized the pet vaccination protocols, now being able to cheaply and efficiently monitor “lack of pet vaccination” and “over vaccination” levels for the core vaccines. This in turn has revolutionized our ability to deliver vaccines in a safer and more scientific fashion. VacciCheck is now recommended in the WSAVA Vaccinations Guidelines, has been discussed on the BBC, written about in the Chicago Tribune and appeared on FOX news, all part of the campaign of improving the well being of our pets. Please note some of the key recommendations and discussion points that the WSAVA Vaccination Guidelines Group has recently published in the “VACCINATION GUIDELINES FOR NEW PUPPY OWNERS”: • “Core vaccines should not be given any more frequently than every three years after the 12 month booster injection following the puppy/kitten series, because the duration of immunity (DOI) is known to be many years and may be up to the lifetime of the pet.” • “The WSAVA strongly supports the concept of the ‘annual health check’ which removes the emphasis from, and client expectation of, annual revaccination and suggests that vaccination (if required) forms only one part of an annual veterinary visit that considers the entire health and wellbeing of the individual dog.” • “ A high percentage (98%) of core puppy vaccines given between 14-16 weeks of age will provide immunity against parvovirus, distemper and adenovirus for many years, and probably for the life of the animal.” • “The WSAVA supports the use of titre testing. This is where a small sample of blood is taken from the dog and checked for the presence of circulating antibodies. The presence of circulating antibodies indicates that the dog is immune, and revaccination (with core vaccines) is not required. You may decide to titre test before giving the 12 month booster, as this may show that boosting is unnecessary. Two new in-practice titre-testing kits are now available which will allow your vet to do a titre test very quickly, without sending the blood sample to a laboratory. Ask your vet to look into this less expensive option. One kit is called VacciCheck (Biogal Laboratories) and the other is called TiterChek (Zoetis).”
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:35:32 +0000
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