title: Canine parvovirus infection, canine distemper and infectious canine hepatitis: inclination to vaccinate and antibody response in the Swedish dog population.
abstract: The inclination of dog owners to vaccinate was investigated by sending a questionnaire to randomly selected Swedish dog-owning households. According to the owners (n = 538), 86.7% of the dogs had been vaccinated against CPV and 95.8% had been vaccinated against CD/ICH. The inclination to vaccinate mixed breeds was significantly lower than the inclination to vaccinate pure-bred dogs. In a second study titres of CPV, CD and CAV-1 virus antibodies were measured in 176 randomly selected dogs with known vaccination histories. CPV antibody titres > or = 1:80 were detected in 70.9% of the CPV vaccinated dogs. There was a significant difference in the fraction of dogs with CPV titre > or = 1:80 between the group last vaccinated with live attenuated vaccine and the group last vaccinated with inactivated vaccine. Titres of CD and CAV-1 virus antibodies > or = 1:16 were found in 86.1% and 91.6% of the vaccinated dogs respectively. The fraction of dogs with CAV-1 antibody titres > or = 1:16 was significantly greater in the group that received inactivated CAV-1 vaccine than in the group vaccinated with attenuated live CAV-2 vaccine. Approximately 50% of the dogs were booster vaccinated against all 3 diseases at one year of age.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Olson
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hedhammar
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Klingeborn
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000917:Antibody Formation; D004216:Distemper / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D006522:Hepatitis, Infectious Canine / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008297:Male; D010322:Parvoviridae Infections / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000662:veterinary*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden; D014611:Vaccination / Q000662:veterinary*