Prophylactic, postinfectious and neonatal vaccination against canine distemper in mink
Hansen, M.; Lund, E.
Nordisk Veterinaermedicin 28(12): 585-591
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0029-1579 PMID: 1034916 Document Number: 106835
Mink were vaccinated against canine distemper and challenged with the Snyder Hill strain. Protection was acquired if vaccination took place more than a few days before challenge. If vaccination took place even early during incubation mortality was higher than in unvaccinated controls. Full protection of kits may be achieved even at an age of 16 - 20 days provided the kits have not passively acquired immunity from their mothers. Kits surviving distemper because of passively acquired immunity may not actively acquire immunity during infection and may die at later exposure.