The American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) is pleased to introduce this revision of the Canine Vaccination Guidelines published, for the first time, as an online educational resource for the veterinary medical profession. This format will allow for frequent online updates as necessary. The revised AAHA Canine Vaccination Guidelines offer important updates to the 2011 Guidelines. The content of the Guidelines has been significantly expanded to facilitate efforts by practicing veterinarians to meet patient and client needs in a complex infectious disease environment. The Guidelines are an authoritative source of evidence-based recommendations and expert opinion provided by the AAHA Canine Vaccination Guidelines Task Force. The Task Force includes individuals with extensive experience in primary care practice, academia, shelter medicine, public health, and veterinary law related to clinical practice.

While there is often consensus on which canine vaccines fall into core and noncore categories and when they should be administered, in practice,...

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