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2006 Feline Vaccine Advisory Panel Report Now Available
Fortunately, we now have a set of recommendations designed just for
shelter dogs, courtesy of the American Animal Hospital Association
(AAHA) and available online. A similar set of recommendations for
shelter cats, the 2006 Feline Vaccine Advisory Panel Report from the
American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP), [was also]
release[d] this summer.
The AAHA and AAFP guidelines cover all the basic aspects of vaccine
use in shelters: what types of vaccines are recommended, which
diseases we should generally vaccinate against, how often vaccines
should be given, which animals are candidates for vaccination, and
more. This is the first time ever that shelter-specific guidelines
have been included in the recommendations published by these
respected organizations.
Excerpted from Vaccination Station: The Finer Points of Shelter
Protocols by Kate F. Hurley, DVM, MPVM, as published in the July-
August 2006 issue of Animal Sheltering magazine.
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AAFP Resources >>>> Practice Guidelines
http://www.aafponline.org/resources/practice_guidelines.htm
The AAFP publishes guidelines for practice excellence. You can
download a copy of each of the guidelines (in Acrobat Reader format)
by clicking on your selection below. Or, to order a hard copy of the
Guidelines for $20/copy click here for the Practice Guideline Order
Form. http://www.aafponline.org/resources/GUIDELINES_ORDER_FORM.pdf
Current Practice Guidelines Include:
The 2006 Feline Vaccine Advisory Panel Report- posted November 6, 2006
(This report is not available for purchase via printed or CD version)
PDF (37 pages - 647 KB) http://tinyurl.com/y8mdws
PDF PLUS (37 pages - 685 KB) http://tinyurl.com/y8mdws
For links to the following guidelines, visit
http://www.aafponline.org/resources/GUIDELINES_ORDER_FORM.pdf
Feline Behavior Guidelines (44 - 1770 KB)
Current Retroviral Testing Guidelines (11 pages - 6244KB)
Basic Guidelines of Judicious Therapeutic Use of Antimicrobials in
Cats (5 pages - 44KB)
Feline Senior Care Guidelines - Index (2 pages - 489KB)
Due to the large size of this document, the link above opens a table
of contents where the Senior Care Guidelines may be downloaded a
section at a time in separate pdf documents.
Feline Senior Care Guidelines - Entire Document (27 pages - 19833KB)
Fel - O - Vax® FIV Information Brief (link to article)
Zoonoses Guidelines (32 pages - 2332KB)
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http://www.aahanet.org/About_aaha/About_Guidelines_Canine06.html
2006 AAHA Canine Vaccine Guidelines
The 2006 AAHA Canine Vaccine Guidelines are now available. This 28-
page report is published as a PDF file (file size: 371KB).
http://www.aahanet.org/About_aaha/vaccine_guidelines06.pdf
AAHA has released a new edition of its vaccine guidelines for dogs.
The 2006 AAHA Canine Vaccine Guidelines are available in their
entirety through the following downloadable file. The executive
summary of the guidelines is published in the March/April 2006 issues
of Trends magazine and the Journal of the American Animal Hospital
Association.
AAHA released its first set of canine vaccination guidelines in 2003.
The AAHA Canine Vaccine Task Force reconvened in 2005 to re-examine
and revise the guidelines to reflect changes in the areas of canine
vaccines. Factors that contributed to the updating of the guidelines
include the rise of well-documented duration of immunity studies,
industry support of extended revaccination intervals, and developing
areas of shelter medicine.
"To stay abreast of the changing landscape of vaccinations, it's
important for companion animal practitioners to review the updated
guidelines," said Daniel Aja, DVM, AAHA president. "We have gained
new knowledge over the past three years – especially in the field of
duration of immunity studies and shelter medicine. These important
updates are well referenced and are reflected in the 2006 edition of
our guidelines."
The 2006 AAHA Canine Vaccine Guidelines include detailed
recommendations on the use of available vaccines, which are
classified as core (universally recommended), noncore (optional), or
not recommended. Revised sections of the document include those
addressing serologic testing, vaccine adverse events, the vaccine
licensing process and the medical and legal implications of vaccine
medicine.
The 28-page document contains a new section of guidelines that
addresses vaccination of dogs entering or residing in animal shelter
environments. Some of the core vaccination recommendations for
shelter environments are slightly more aggressive than the guidelines
presented for general veterinary practice.
Other new content covered in the document includes a section
highlighting the science of vaccine development, specifically such
technologies as live vectored, subunit, gene-deleted, and
deoxyribonucleic acid vaccines. The document also addresses vaccines
granted a conditional license by the US Department of Agriculture
Center for Veterinary Biologics, which includes rattlesnake and
periodontal disease vaccines.
The 2006 AAHA Canine Vaccine Guidelines are based on a combination of
published and unpublished scientific studies, expert opinion and
personal experience. The guidelines include a number of new citations
that enhance and enforce the science on which the guidelines are
based. The guidelines are intended to educate and inform the
profession and help veterinarians make vaccine recommendations for
individual dogs or in the case of a shelter situation, a population
of dogs. The guidelines are not intended to be an AAHA standard of
care.
"For private practitioners, vaccinations certainly remain a medical
decision and procedure that should be individualized based on the
risk and lifestyle of the individual dog," says Aja. "Factors to
consider include the age, breed, health status, environment,
lifestyle, and travel habits of the dog."
The 2006 AAHA Canine Vaccine Guidelines were developed by a task
force composed of practitioners, internists, infectious disease
experts, immunologists and those committed to the growing concern of
the particular needs of shelter medicine. Task force members include
Michael A. Paul, DVM, chair; Leland E. Carmichael, DVM, PhD, DACVM;
Henry Childers, DVM, DABVP; Susan Cotter, DVM, DACVIM; Autumn
Davidson, DVM, DACVIM; Richard Ford, DVM, DACVIM; Kate F. Hurley,
DVM, MPVM; James A. Roth, DVM, PhD, DACVM; Ronald D. Schultz, PhD,
DACVM; Eileen Thacker, DVM, DACVM; and Link Welborn, DVM, DABVP.
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