Exam 3: Examples of Vaccines

Question 1

What type of vaccine does the Polio Virus have?

Answer 1

Inactivated and attenuated whole pathogen

Question 2

What type of vaccine does the influenza virus have?

Answer 2

Inactivated (and attenuated) whole pathogen vaccine

Question 3

What type of vaccine does the MMR virus have?

Answer 3

Combined attenuated whole pathogen

Question 4

What type of vaccine does the DTaP have?

Answer 4

Combined subunit vaccine for bacterial diseases

Question 5

What type of vaccines does pneumonia and meningitis have?

Answer 5

Conjugated polysaccharide vaccines (subunit)

Question 6

Hepatitis B and HPV have what type of vaccine?

Answer 6

Recombinant DNA-generated subunit vaccine

Question 7

What are the type of vaccines COVID-19 have?

Answer 7

Genetic vaccines

Question 8

How does influenza target cells if the host?

Answer 8

Through the use of their glycoproteins N and H

Question 9

What virus serves as an example for Antigenic Shift?

Answer 9

The Flu Virus because it has the capability to jump from species to species

Question 10

Most Flu vaccines now are? What type of vaccine is the least common now?

Answer 10

Injected inactivated vaccine is the most popular and favored. An attenuated nasal vaccine is the least common

Question 11

Can bacterial infections be treated with vaccines?

Answer 11

No, they are treated with antibiotics

Question 12

What is the main goal of the DTaP vaccine?

Answer 12

Generate antibodies that can neutralize toxins

Question 13

Toxoids:

Answer 13

Toxins that have ben isolated and chemically modified to become harmless

Question 14

Why are some bacterial called encapsulated?

Answer 14

There is a thick polysaccharide capsule surrounding the cell wall

Question 15

What is the function of the polysaccharide wall surrounding a bacterial cell

Answer 15

Aids in it protection against an immune response

Question 16

A Capsular polysaccharide that is chemically coupled to a protein

Answer 16

A Conjugate polysaccharide

Question 17

What are the names of the viruses that cause liver inflammation (hepatitis)

Answer 17

Hepatitis A, B, and C

Question 18

For Hepatitis, vaccine are only available for which 2 out of the 3?

Answer 18

Hepatitis A and B, not C

Question 19

Vaccine that only uses the surface proteins of its connected virus?

Answer 19

HPV - Human papilloma virus

Question 20

What is the difference between HBV and HCV and HAV

Answer 20

HBV and HCV = long term chronic inflammation, liked to cancer

HAV = short term inflammation , not linked to cancer

Question 21

What was the first vaccine approved that used Genetic Material?

Answer 21

The Ebola Vaccine

Question 22

Genetic Vaccines that use RNA as genetic material?

Answer 22

Pfizer and Moderna

Question 23

Genetic Vaccine that uses DNA as genetic material?

Answer 23

J and J COVID vaccine