Canine Distemper Vaccination is a Safe and Useful Preventive Procedure for Southern Sea Otters (Enhydra lutra nereis)
| Autor: | Deborah Brownstein, David A. Jessup, Michael J. Murray, Christine Kreuder-Johnson, David R. Casper |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Time Factors Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Antibodies Viral Serology biology.animal parasitic diseases medicine Animals Distemper Distemper Virus Canine General Veterinary biology Enhydra lutris Canine distemper Outbreak Viral Vaccines Aquatic animal General Medicine biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Virology Vaccination biology.protein Animal Science and Zoology Lutra Antibody Otters |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine. 40:705-710 |
| ISSN: | 1937-2825 1042-7260 |
| DOI: | 10.1638/2008-0080.1 |
| Popis: | From 2002 to 2006, eight captive southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) at research and display institutions in California at risk of exposure to potentially lethal morbiliviruses were vaccinated with a commercial recombinant poxvirus vectored canine distemper (CD) vaccine. Serum-neutralizing (SN) antibody responses were followed for several years. The goal of this study was to determine whether 1) CD vaccination was a safe preventive medicine procedure for this species; 2) sea otters produce detectable SN antibodies in response to vaccination with this product; and 3) if this type of vaccination might be useful in response to a morbilivirus disease outbreak in free-ranging sea otters. Results indicate that a commercial recombinant vaccine is safe, provokes a measurable SN antibody response, and that vaccination may provide some protection from infection for free-ranging sea otters. It also resulted in the reevaluation of CD serology data that were previously published for free-ranging sea otters. Canine distemper, Enhydra lutris nereis, morbilivirus, sea otter, serology, vaccination. |
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