West Nile Virus Questions and Answers
In a question and answer session at the Western Veterinary Conference, Eileen Ostlund, DVM, PhD, head of the equine and ovine viruses section at the Diagnostic Virology Laboratory, National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa, offered these answers to the audience’s West Nile virus questions.
Q. Can you use Merial’s recombinant canarypox vaccine to booster horses after
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In a question and answer session at the Western Veterinary Conference, Eileen Ostlund, DVM, PhD, head of the equine and ovine viruses section at the Diagnostic Virology Laboratory, National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa, offered these answers to the audience’s West Nile virus questions.
Q. Can you use Merial’s recombinant canarypox vaccine to booster horses after using the killed Fort Dodge vaccine?
A. We don’t know yet. We need to measure antibody levels before and after booster vaccination to see if it is protective. I’d want to see data before saying yes or no. The same proteins are targeted, but how the two different formats interact is not really known.
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Christy M. West
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