Vaccines or candidate Vaccines used to prevent Infection with Hepatitis A virus (Hepatovirus).

The flu (influenza) vaccine is recommended for persons at high risk for serious complications from influenza infection. Those include: Everyone age 65 or more; People with chronic diseases of the heart; People with chronic diseases of the lung; People with chronic diseases of the kidneys; People with diabetes; People with immunosuppression; People [..]

The influenza (flu) vaccine is recommended for persons at high risk for serious complications from influenza virus infection. Those include: Everyone age 65 or more; People with chronic diseases of the heart; People with chronic diseases of the lung; People with chronic diseases of the kidneys; People with diabetes; People with immunosuppression; P [..]

See: Polio vaccine, inactivated.

A vaccine to prevent meningococcal meningitis, an inflammation of the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord due to bacterial infection by an organism called Neisseria meningitidis. The symptoms of meningococcal meningitis include drowsiness, headache, high fever, stiff neck, nausea and vomiting. The disease strikes 3.8 of every 100,000 col [..]

A vaccine designed to prevent rubella, or German measles. German measles was once seen merely as a child's unpleasant rite of passage. It was thought to be a mild malady that was usually over and done in three days. So what? Then an outbreak of rubella began in 1964. It lasted two years and infected more than 12 million people in the US alone. [..]

The oral polio vaccine (OPV) developed by the Polish-born American microbiologist Albert B. Sabin (1906-93).

See: Polio vaccine, oral.

Vaccine against poliomyelitis named for Dr. Jonas Salk who developed and introduced it in 1955. It was the first type of polio vaccine to become available. It was made by cultivating three strains of the virus separately in monkey tissue. The virus was separated from the tissue, stored for a week, and killed with formaldehyde. This killed-virus vac [..]

A substance or group of substances meant to cause the immune system to respond to a tumor or to microorganisms, such as bacteria or viruses. A vaccine can help the body recognize and destroy cancer ce [..]

A harmless variant or derivative of a pathogen that stimulates a host's immune system to mount defenses against the pathogen.

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Suspension of attenuated or killed microbes or toxins administered to induce active immunity.

A preparation designed to induce immunity to a specific disease

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A substance that contains antigenic components from an infectious microorganism. By stimulating an immune response--but not the disease--it protects against subsequent infection by that organism. Ther [..]

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A substance given to humans or animals to improve immunity from disease. A vaccine can sometimes contain a small amount of bacteria that is designed to stimulate the body's reaction to that parti [..]

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A preparation of either killed microorganisms; living, weakened (attenuated) microorganisms; or inactivated bacterial toxins (toxoids); administered to induce development of the immune response and protect the individual against a pathogen or toxin. vacuole

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A substance or group of substances meant to cause the immune system to respond to a tumor or to microorganisms, such as bacteria or viruses.

A chemical compound that provides immunity from a particular disease. The Combine

a substance given to stimulate the body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease, prepared from the agent that causes the disease or a synthetic substitute

Any substance, bearing antigens on its surface, that causes activation of an animal?s immune system without causing actual disease. The animal's immune system components (e.g. antibodies) are the [..]

A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. It typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-carrying microorganism, and is often made from weakened or [..]

A preparation that contains an agent or its components, administered to stimulate an immune response that will protect a person from illness due to that agent. A therapeutic (treatment) vaccine is giv [..]

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(n) immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies

  A preparation used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity from diseases.

  A triple combination of live measles, mumps and rubella viruses in a suspension, used for immunization against the respective diseases.

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A vaccine is another word for what most kids call a shot. Even though getting vaccines isn't fun, they are very important because they help protect you against diseases.

Suspensions of attenuated or killed Bacteria administered for the prevention or treatment of infectious Bacterial Disease.

A Bacterial Vaccine for the prevention of Brucellosis in man and Animal. Brucella abortus vaccine is used for the Immunization of Cattle, Sheep, and Goats.

An active immunizing agent and a viable avirulent attenuated strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, var. bovis, which confers Immunity to mycobacterial Infections. It is used also in Immunotherapy of N [..]

The Formaldehyde-inactivated toxin of Corynebacterium diphtheriae. It is generally used in mixtures with Tetanus TOXOID and Pertussis Vaccine; (DTP); or with Tetanus toxoid alone (DT for pediatric use [..]

A combined vaccine used to prevent Infection with Diphtheria and Tetanus toxoid. This is used in place of DTP Vaccine (Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Vaccine) when Pertussis Vaccine is contraindicated.

Combined Vaccines consisting of Diphtheria Toxoid; Tetanus TOXOID; and an acellular form of Pertussis Vaccine. At least five different purified Antigens of B. Pertussis have been used in various combi [..]

A vaccine consisting of Diphtheria Toxoid; Tetanus TOXOID; and whole-Cell Pertussis Vaccine. The vaccine protects against Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Whooping Cough.

Vaccines or candidate Vaccines used to prevent or treat both enterotoxigenic and Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Infections.

Vaccines or candidate Vaccines containing antigenic polysaccharides from Haemophilus influenzae and designed to prevent Infection. The vaccine can contain the polysaccharides alone or more frequently [..]

Vaccines or candidate Vaccines containing inactivated Hepatitis B or some of its component Antigens and designed to prevent Hepatitis B. Some Vaccines may be recombinantly produced.

A suspension of formalin-inactivated Poliovirus grown in Monkey Kidney Cell Tissue Culture and used to prevent Poliomyelitis.

Vaccines used to prevent Infection by Viruses in the Family Orthomyxoviridae. It includes both killed or Attenuated Vaccines. The composition of the Vaccines is changed each year in response to antige [..]

A live attenuated Virus vaccine of Chick Embryo origin, used for routine Immunization of Children and for Immunization of Adolescents and Adults who have not had Measles or been immunized with live Me [..]

Vaccines or candidate Vaccines used to prevent Infection with Neisseria meningitidis.

A live attenuated Virus vaccine of Chick Embryo origin, used for routine Immunization of Children and for Immunization of Adolescents and Adults who have not had Mumps or been immunized with live Mump [..]

A combined vaccine used to prevent Measles; Mumps; and Rubella.

A suspension of killed Bordetella pertussis organisms, used for Immunization against Pertussis (Whooping Cough). It is generally used in a mixture with Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids (DTP). There is a [..]

A suspension of killed Yersinia pestis used for immunizing people in enzootic Plague areas.

Vaccines or candidate Vaccines used to prevent Pseudorabies (Aujeszky's Disease), a herpesvirus of Swine and other Animals.

Vaccines or candidate Vaccines used to prevent and treat Rabies. The inactivated Virus vaccine is used for preexposure Immunization to Persons at high Risk of exposure, and in conjunction with Rabies [..]

A live attenuated Virus vaccine of duck Embryo or Human Diploid Cell Tissue Culture origin, used for routine Immunization of Children and for Immunization of nonpregnant Adolescent and Adult females o [..]

A live vaccine containing attenuated Poliovirus, types I, II, and III, grown in Monkey Kidney Cell Tissue Culture, used for routine Immunization of Children against Polio. This vaccine induces long-la [..]

A live Vaccinia virus vaccine of calf Lymph or Chick Embryo origin, used for Immunization against Smallpox. It is now recommended only for Laboratory workers exposed to Smallpox Virus. Certain countri [..]

A live, attenuated Varicella Virus vaccine used for Immunization against Chickenpox. It is recommended for Children between the ages of 12 months and 13 years.

Vaccine used to prevent Yellow Fever. It consists of a live attenuated 17D strain of the Yellow fever virus.

An attenuated vaccine used to prevent and/or treat Herpes Zoster, a Disease caused by Human herpesvirus 3.

A substance administered to trigger an immune response against a particular disease. Most vaccines are designed to prevent a person from ever having a particular disease or to only have a mild case of the disease. However, therapeutic vaccines are intended to treat specific diseases. Although researchers are testing vaccines both to prevent and tre [..]

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen, such as a bacterium or virus, or of a portion of the pathogen's structure that upon administration stimulates antibody production or cellular immun [..]

A product, including dead or weakened forms of an infectious agent or molecules that are part of the agent, that prompts the immune system to develop defenses against that specific organism.

a substance containing some version of actual disease-causing organisms (either weakened or dead) that is used to treat or prevent disease by provoking the body to respond with antibodies. The first s [..]

   Substance designed to stimulate the body to fight off a specific infection. Vaccines are often made of weakened or partial viruses which cannot cause infection but which can induce a response from the body.

A product made from whole, or extracts of, killed viruses or bacteria, or from live weakened strains of viruses or bacteria.

Antigenic material in the form of weakened, killed, or modified pathogens, introduced to the body to induce immunity against a particular pathogen.

A vaccine is a preparation of killed or inactivated infectious agents or subunits of the agent’s components that is used to stimulate immunity. Once immunity is established, upon exposure to an infect [..]

A product of weakened or killed microorganism (bacterium or virus) given for the prevention or treatment of infectious diseases.

a preparation that stimulates an immune response that can prevent an infection or create resistance to an infection.

a preparation that stimulates an immune response that can prevent an infection or create resistance to an infection.

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A product of weakened or killed microorganism (bacterium or virus) given for the prevention or treatment of infectious diseases.[2]

A product made from whole, or extracts of, killed viruses or bacteria, or from live weakened strains of viruses or bacteria. [3] vaccine: A preparation consisting of antigens of a disease-causing or [..]

A preparation of microbial antigens that provokes an immune response (i.e. the production of antibodies) on injection, thus conferring immunity on the recipient. There are three types of vaccines: 1. [..]

killed microorganisms, weakened living organisms, fully virulent living organisms, or subunit proteins of a microbe, administered to produce or artificially increase immunity to a particular disease.

An immunity booster to a specified disease.

A product of weakened or killed microoorganism (bacterium or virus) given for the prevention or treatment of infectious diseases

A product that produces immunity, therefore protecting the body from the disease. Vaccines are administered through needle injections, by mouth and by aerosol.

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a preparation of weakened or killed microbes, or parts of microbes, given to prevent, improve, or treat an infectious disease

A product that produces immunity therefore protecting the body from the disease. Vaccines are administered through needle injections, by mouth and by aerosol.

A mixture of killed or weakened virus or bacteria, injected into a person to help prevent disease. Since the virus or bacteria in a vaccine is either killed or weakened, the body can easily defeat it. [..]

A substance that stimulates a remembered adaptive immune response that can prevent a disease from occurring.

A preparation of killed or weakened microorganisms that is administered to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease.

An injection that protects the animal from a particular infectious disease.

A preparation that contains either whole disease-causing organisms such as viruses which have been killed or weakened, or parts of such organisms, used to confer immunity against the disease that the organisms cause. Vaccine preparations can be natural, synthetic or derived by recombinant DNA technology.

[vak-seen] A substance or group of substances that improves immunity to microorganisms, such as bacteria or viruses.

A substance that provides immunity to disease. Vaccines stimulate the immune system to recognise and destroy disease-causing agents, like bacteria or viruses.

Immunogenic material capable of stimulating active immunity or, in the case of DNA vaccines, of directing the synthesis of proteins that stimulate immunity. Vaccines may elicit both prophylactic (preventative) and therapeutic responses.

An immunization performed primarily by needle injection that creates antibodies to fight a particular virus.

A preparation of dead or weakened pathogen, or of derived antigenic determinants, that is used to induce formation of antibodies or immunity against the pathogen.

This refers to a preparation of micro-organisms administered by injection in order to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease.

Preparations containing substances with antigenic properties administered to activate the immune system, inducing an immune response. Vaccine ranges from inactivated or attenuated microorganisms (bacteria and viruses), enhanced autologous tumor cells, tumor antigens or epitopes, to peptide cojugated immunotoxins that are used to elicit host immune [..]

a substance prepared from killed or weakened pathogens and introduced into a body to produce immunity

a solution of killed or inactive viruses or bacteria or synthetically, genetically engineered antigenic material. Usually administered by injection, a vaccine can stimulate an immune response and thus give a person protection against contracting a disease. Currently there is no vaccine against hepatitis C.

A substance that contains antigenic components from an infectious organism. By stimulating an immune response-but not the disease-it protects against subsequent infection by that organism. There can b [..]

A preparation of killed microorganisms, living attenuated organisms, or living fully virulent organisms that is administered to produce or artificially increase immunity to a particular disease. Virus

Naturally occurring substances that stimulate the body’s immune system to fight disease. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)

A substance given to stimulate the body’s production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease.

a solution of killed or inactive viruses or bacteria or synthetically, genetically engineered antigenic material. Usually administered by injection, a vaccine can stimulate an immune response and thus [..]

A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism an [..]

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Vaccine is a class of medication typically used in prevention of disease. Vaccine may also refer to: Vaccination, the process of administering a vaccine Vaccine hesitancy, a reluctance or refusal to [..]

Vaccine is a peer-reviewed medical journal, published by Elsevier. It is targeted towards medical professionals who are interested in vaccines and vaccination. It describes itself as "an interface bet [..]