Volume 41, Issue 1, November 2023, Pages 39–47
Saloua Ziani1, Khalid Sohaib2, Youssef Lhor3, Ikhlass El Berbri4, and Ouafaa Fassi Fihri5
1 Veterinary Service of Rabat, National Food Safety Office, Rabat, Morocco
2 MASAFEQ Laboratory, Department of Economics, National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics, Rabat, Morocco
3 Régional Direction of Rabat Salé Kenitra, National Food Safety Office, Rabat, Morocco
4 Department of Veterinary Pathology and Public Health, Hassan II Agronomic and Veterinary Institute, Rabat, Morocco
5 Department of Veterinary Pathology and Public Health, Hassan II Agronomic and Veterinary Institute, Rabat, Morocco
Original language: English
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Rabies is a deadly disease that can spread between mammals. Morocco is a rabies-endemic country. To maintain rabies-free status, some countries require rabies antibody titration tests. This titration is subject to variation. This retrospective study was conducted to determine the factors associated with humoral response variation in rabies-vaccinated domestic cats in the context of pet movements. Factors such as the animal’s sex, its age, the laboratory, the test used (FAVN or RFFIT), the time between vaccination and rabies titration sampling, and the number of vaccinations were taken into account. Information on 959 cats was collected, and structural modeling utilizing logistic multinomial regression was used. The results showed that 57.1% of the cats had a titer exceeding 10 IU/ml, 32.1% had a moderate response (3
Author Keywords: Anti-rabies titration, Cat, Morocco, Rabies, Vaccination.
Saloua Ziani1, Khalid Sohaib2, Youssef Lhor3, Ikhlass El Berbri4, and Ouafaa Fassi Fihri5
1 Veterinary Service of Rabat, National Food Safety Office, Rabat, Morocco
2 MASAFEQ Laboratory, Department of Economics, National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics, Rabat, Morocco
3 Régional Direction of Rabat Salé Kenitra, National Food Safety Office, Rabat, Morocco
4 Department of Veterinary Pathology and Public Health, Hassan II Agronomic and Veterinary Institute, Rabat, Morocco
5 Department of Veterinary Pathology and Public Health, Hassan II Agronomic and Veterinary Institute, Rabat, Morocco
Original language: English
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Rabies is a deadly disease that can spread between mammals. Morocco is a rabies-endemic country. To maintain rabies-free status, some countries require rabies antibody titration tests. This titration is subject to variation. This retrospective study was conducted to determine the factors associated with humoral response variation in rabies-vaccinated domestic cats in the context of pet movements. Factors such as the animal’s sex, its age, the laboratory, the test used (FAVN or RFFIT), the time between vaccination and rabies titration sampling, and the number of vaccinations were taken into account. Information on 959 cats was collected, and structural modeling utilizing logistic multinomial regression was used. The results showed that 57.1% of the cats had a titer exceeding 10 IU/ml, 32.1% had a moderate response (3
Author Keywords: Anti-rabies titration, Cat, Morocco, Rabies, Vaccination.
How to Cite this Article
Saloua Ziani, Khalid Sohaib, Youssef Lhor, Ikhlass El Berbri, and Ouafaa Fassi Fihri, “Assessing variation of rabies antibody titers in domestic cats in the context of pet travel from Morocco,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 39–47, November 2023.
