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Equine Immunoprophylaxis and Vaccination Guidelines
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Introduction
Immunoprophylaxis is the prevention of infectious disease through induction and enhancement of specific protective immune responses. Immunity can be either passively or actively acquired. However, the preferred approach is to induce protective responses actively through the administration of vaccines. Different types of vaccines are available such as inactivated or modified live whole pathogen vaccines, subunit vaccines, inactivated microbial product vaccines such as toxoids, and genetic material encoding for expression of protective antigens (DNA vaccines, vector vaccines).
Immune response
Active immunisation starts with the administration of a primary series of vaccinations to prime and subsequently booster the immune system. On subsequent exposure to the specific pathogen, memory cells can be recruited to quickly generate specific antibodies and effector cells such as cytotoxic T-lymphocytes. Only some vaccines are able to induce sterile immunity, in which case infection and replication of the pathogen are completely blocked. Most vaccines induce clinical protection with more or less significant reduction of pathogen excretion in vaccinated animals. [...]
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