SciVaxx Flashcards
How long does it take for antibody response when vaccinated?
→5-7 days
How long does it take for gull response when vaccinated?
→2 weeks
How long does it for full protective response when vaccinated?
→7 days
What type of response for polio?
→antibodies
What type of response for tuberculosis?
→cell mediated
Where does response have to be induced for influenza?
→mucosal sIgA
Where does response have to be induced for yellow fever?
→systemic
What is a parenteral vaccine?
→given by injection
What are oral vaccines processed by?
→mucosal associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) - good IgA production
What is the incubation period for cholera?
→short
Which antibody is found in breast milk?
→sIgA
What are monotypic pathogens?
→Surface antigens have remained the same to date.
→Vaccination or infection gives lifelong immunity
→eg. measles
What is antigenic drift?
→accumulation of mutations in genes that code for virus surface proteins with time
What is antigenic shift?
→recombination of viral strains to produce a different subtype with a mixture of surface antigens from the original strains
How are live attenuated vaccines made?
→serial culture in foreign host ‘passage’ e.g. Measles: 10 years of serial passage in tissue culture to transform wild virus into attenuated vaccine virus
→chemical mutagenesis and selection of phenotypes e.g Salmonella typhi TY21a
→genetic engineering to create knockouts lacking genes for virulence e.g. Vibrio cholerae
→Live attenuated vaccines can be useful for producing CTL memory cells as they can infect APCs
