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Core vaccine

Meaning in veterinary medicine, with examples

/kɔː ˈvæksiːn/nounCommon term

In veterinary medicine, core vaccine means: A vaccine that every animal of a species should receive, wherever it lives, because it protects against widespread and serious diseases.

In Turkish: temel aşı, çekirdek aşı

How it is used

Contrasted with non-core vaccines, which depend on lifestyle and local risk. For dogs, core vaccines protect against distemper, adenovirus and parvovirus; for cats, against panleukopenia, herpesvirus and calicivirus. Rabies is core where the law or local risk requires it.

Example sentences

  1. Leptospirosis is not a core vaccine everywhere, but we recommend it for dogs that swim in lakes.

  2. Even indoor cats are given core vaccines, because some viruses can be carried in on shoes.

Common collocations

  • core vaccines for dogs
  • non-core vaccine
  • core vaccination schedule
  • lifestyle vaccines
  • vaccinationGiving an animal a vaccine, usually by injection or into the nose, to train its immune system to protect it against a specific infectious disease.
  • boosterAn extra dose of a vaccine given at set intervals after the first course to keep the animal's immunity strong.
  • parvovirusA tough, highly contagious virus that causes severe vomiting, bloody diarrhoea and dehydration, mainly in young unvaccinated dogs. A related parvovirus causes panleukopenia in cats.
  • rabiesA viral disease of the nervous system that spreads mainly through bites from infected animals. Once clinical signs appear, it is almost always fatal in animals and people.

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