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The Bovine Lung in Biomedical Research: Visually Guided Bronchoscopy, Intrabronchial Inoculation and In Vivo Sampling Techniques
Published on: July 3, 2014
[The control of kennel cough]
1Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Infektions- und Seuchenmedizin, Tierärztliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Tierarztliche Praxis
|January 1, 1988
Summary
Kennel cough, an infectious disease, often resists conventional treatments. New vaccination and paramunization strategies significantly reduce canine kennel cough morbidity.
Area of Science:
- Veterinary Medicine
- Infectious Diseases
- Immunology
Context:
- Kennel cough presents a significant challenge in high-density canine environments like animal homes and dealer kennels.
- Conventional control methods (hygiene, management, chemotherapy, symptomatic therapy) frequently prove insufficient for managing outbreaks.
Purpose:
- To introduce and evaluate novel strategies for controlling infectious factorial kennel cough.
- To present a new therapeutic concept combining conventional methods with paraspecific immune system stimulation.
Summary:
- A synergistic combined vaccine, "Candiflu," containing key canine respiratory viruses, is recommended for prophylaxis.
- In high-turnover kennels, vaccination must be supplemented with paramunization to bolster the immune system.
- Therapeutic success is achieved through a combination of traditional approaches and paramunization, stimulating the paraspecific immune system.
Impact:
- These novel methods have demonstrated significant reductions in kennel cough morbidity in problem kennels.
- The integrated approach, combining vaccination and paramunization, has proven highly successful in West Germany.
- This research offers a more effective paradigm for managing infectious respiratory diseases in kennels.
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