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Sukie Crandall <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 4 Feb 2002 23:55:11 -0500
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>One of the things no one has mentioned here is that if the kit had just
>been vaccinated recently, that sometimes the test comes back positive and
>its not really positive, because its the vaccine that caused it to show
>positive.  I remember back when Judy (White Russian's mom first started
>testing ferrets that this topic was brought up by some of the people back
>east that had been testing their ferrets.) You should wait to test for ADV
>if you have just recently vaccinated your ferrets.
 
That depends on the test that was used.  To my knowledge, vaccination does
not interfere with the ELISA test run by Avecon.
 
Dr. Ruth
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[Posted in FML issue 3684]

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