The risk of getting the disease will be different for every pet. It depends on geographic location, seasonality, exposure to wildlife and interaction with the environment. Leptospirosis is carried by racoons, rats, other dogs, and less so mice, cows, horses, and pigs. So your risk will incre...
Titer test Dog owners may opt to give their dog a titer test, which measures your dog’s immunity to determine which vaccines are necessary. However, the rabies vaccination is not optional for a titer test as it is required by law across the majority of the United States. How much do pu...
With access to in-house titer testing,there’s never any reason to give any cat or dog over the age of 16 weeks another vaccine without a negative titertest first. So vets don’t have to GUESS at when to re-vaccinate. And with access to these in-house tests, you shouldn’t have to...
After receiving a rabies blood titer (a test that checks for an immune response to rabies), Ginger and Bailey were prevented from entering the state for 120 days. They could either remain on the mainland for that period or at the Honolulu quarantine station. Faith chose to hang back with G...
Peru doesn’t require a special import permit for dogs and cats (exception: puppies and kittens less than 12 weeks of age and unvaccinated) nor a pet microchip or rabies titer test to enter the country and doesn’t have a banned breeds list. ...
Results of a rabies titer test (required when entering the EU from anunlisted country. Proof of a tapeworm test for dogs entering Ireland, Norway, Finland or Malta. Declaration of Non-Commercial Transport Form attesting that your pet’s transport does not involve sale or transfer of ownership....
Whatever it is, most dogs don’t do it. Willie never grins, Tootsie never grins, and for that matter, I can’t think of any of my dogs who ever did. That’s my question for you: Does your dog raise her upper lip and show her upper teeth in what is clearly not a context of...
Indeed, not only in secondary-treated municipal wastewater of up to 4 log titer of human NoV GI and GII particles per mL have been described [4], but also treatments with UV or membrane filtration (the so-called tertiary treatment) have been shown not to reduce NoV surrogates to a non-...
21,22 Saliva testing is replacing nasopharyngeal and bronchial testing because it is as sensitive and it is not painful to administer; thus, it is particularly helpful when testing children who can be given a straw and told to drool saliva in a test tube. SARS-CoV-2 remains viable in ...
This tells us almost nothing of relevance to the question of whether lower doses of vaccine can protect small dogs and reduce their risk of adverse events. Is the Hemopet titer a validated titer test with meaningful cutoff levels? What were the original titer levels? Were they already...