Vaccinate cats Part I - Impfschemata
On the question of how often vaccinations for cats to be refreshed, there is the default response "once a year." Whence comes this recommendation, but is now barely nachvollziebar. Even David R. Hustead, employees of the pharmaceutical company Fort Dodge, said in an interview, dassihm the origin of the one-year recommendation on the instruction leaflets was not known (by Monika Peichel). These studies show the U.S. that traditional vaccines quite a longer protection than previously thought. In the United States is beginning to schedule other than that in Germany still far verbreitetete "once a year" through. Here is an overview on different Impfschemata.
Common schedule with annual recurrent
(Source: Pfizer)
| Age in weeks | 9 p.m. | 12 | 16 | 19 | annual repetition |
| Combined Katzenschupfen / Dis | x | x ** | |||
| Combined cats sniffed / Dis / rabies | x | x * | x ** | ||
| Leucosis | x | x | x | ||
| FIP | x | x | x |
* Recommendation
** depending Impfintervall recommended for rabies vaccination is done with or without rabies
Recommendation of the small medical clinic at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich
(Source: University of Munich Vetmed [PDF])
Core vaccines
Basic immunization
| Proposal 1 (at initial presentation with 6 weeks) | Proposal 2 (at initial presentation at 8 weeks) | Proposal 3 (at initial presentation> 3 months, but <1 year | Proposal 4 (at initial presentation> 1 year) | |
| 6th Week | 8th Week | -- | -- | HCP |
| 9th Week | 11th Week | first | first | HCP |
| 12th Week | 14th Week | after 3 weeks | after 3 weeks | HCP |
| after 1 / 2 year | after 1 / 2 year | after 1 / 2 year | -- | HCP |
| after 1 year | after 1 year | after 1 year | after 1 year | HCP |
Refresher
All 3 years HCP
Abbreviations: H = herpes virus, calicivirus = C, P = Panleukopenie
Non-core vaccines
Rabies
- Available only runner
- Fibrosarcoma-risk, so vaccination in the right hind leg (distal)
- 12th Week, then annually
FeLV
- Available only runner
- only after FeLV test (antigen)
- NOT for FeLV positive cats
- Altersresitenz, no vaccination for 8 years
- not together with other basic immunization, 16 + 20. Week, after 1 year refresher
- Fibrosarcoma-risk, so vaccination in the left hind leg (distal)
- Recommended only Eurifel FeLV (Meridal)
FIP
- intranasally
- only antibody-negative cats
- Use only when needed (residence in animal pension, etc.)
- NOT in Coronarviren or FIP in stock
- never breedings (serolog. negative sought stocks)
- NOT before the 16th Week (poor cellular immunity)
- 16th + 20. Week, then Annual closing
Chlamydia
- problem only in stocks
- Basic immunization with HCP possible
- Annual refresher
Special cases
FIV-positive cat
- optimally: NO vaccination + pure flat cat
- Available at runners: HCPT (all inactivated)
FeLV positive cats
- Only HCP vaccination + pure Wohungskatze
- everything inactivated
- annual refresher needed more frequent
After Fibrosarcoma
- no vaccination
Autoimmune disease
- NO vaccination
Recommendations from the U.S.
The Cornell Feline Health Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, The American Association of Feline Practitioners, Academy of Feline Medicine Advisory Panel on Feline Vaccines
| Disease | Type vaccination | Age at first vaccination in weeks | Age at the second vaccination in weeks | Refresher | Administration |
| Feline Panleukopenie | inactivated MLV MLV-IN | 8-10 8-10 8-10 | 12-14 12-14 12-14 | 1 year after primary immunization, then in 3-year intervals | SC or IM SC or Imin |
| Feline Viral rhinotracheitis | inactivated MLV MLV-IN | 8-10 8-10 8-10 | 12-14 12-14 12-14 | 1 year after primary immunization, then in 3-year intervals | SC or IM SC or Imin |
| Feline calicivirus | Live weakened inactivated | 8-10 8-10 | 12-14 12-14 | 1 year after primary immunization, then in 3-year intervals (if risk) | SC or IM SC or IM |
| Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) - only for cats in high-risk groups | inactivated | 9 p.m. | 12 | 1 year after primary immunization, and thereafter annually | SC or IM |
| Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) | not recommended | ||||
| Rabies | inactivated | 12 | 64 | 1 year after primary immunization, then in 3-year intervals | SC or IM |
| Dermatophytosis (not for routine use recommended) | 16 | ||||
| Feline immune deficiency virus (FIV) | No vaccination available |
Legend: MLV = modified live virus, IM = intramuscularly, IN = intranasel SC = subcutaneous
The image "poor Luki" was yajico on Flickr under a Creative Commons license available.
I let my (housing) Cats tiny as just grundimmunisieren. I spoke to my veterinarian at times that I have because of the concern known to frequent Carzinomvorkommen result of Imfpungen and also spoke directly to the issue "because the pharmaceutical industry makes but only with money" at. He grinned and nickte.Ehrlich, because I do prefer the times as 30 euros in the coffee fund in the year.