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Originally Posted by gemy  I vaccinate against Lyme's Disease, as it is prevalent here in S.W. Ontario, and we camp and hike into other areas, nevermind the show travel we do.
I still need to do much more research; but I know enough right now to say my 5 yr old BRT has had his last Rabies shot. I will titer from now on in.
What concerns me is my vet has said; Oh Gail, you know that titering can be inaccurate They was a lot of other stuff going on, and I never queried him about this statement.
So does anyone have any studies etc about the accuracy of titering? |
Titers can only tell you the number of antibodies in the blood volume. A dog w/ a positive titer (has antibodies) could have humoral immunity, but does not have cellular mediated immunity (therefore, get infected). A dog w/ a negative titer may not have humoral immunity (no antibodies), but they did develop cell-mediated immunity (and therefore, will fight an infection).
So, it's not that titers are inaccurate, it's just that they can't give you a complete picture to know your pet is covered. Where titers can be really useful is - let's say you found a stray in an unhealthy condition, took her to the vet, you may decide to titer the stray so that you can see if the dog has a positive titer, and if she does - you could consider not vaccinating her at that time.
To the OP, we do only Core vaccines for our kiddos; and we follow Dodd's.