Vaccine and Molecular Diagnostic Tecniques Flashcards
What is a vaccine?
Suspension of antigens that is administered to induce immunity.
True/False. The majority of vaccines derives from microbial pathogens for controlling infectious diseases.
True.
What can vaccines contain?
- Preservatives and stabilizers to preserve the antigen
- Specific antibiotics to inhibit bacterial and fungal growth
- Adjuvant to enhance the immune response to the antigen
What delays the release of antigens from the site of injection and induces the secretion of chemokines by leukocytes?
Adjuvant
True/False. Depot adjuvants and particulate adjuvats enhace cell-mediated immunity and antibody production.
False. Particulate adjuvant enhances cell-mediated immunity and Immunostimulated adjuvants enhance antibody production
What are depot adjuvants?
They prolong immune responses
What are the cons of live attenuated vaccines?
- Potential for reversion to virulence
- Virulence in the immunocompromised
- Less stable in storage
A ____ vaccine permits discrimination between a vaccinal and an exposure immune response.
Marker vaccine
What are the pros of live attenuated vaccines?
- Rapid onset of immunity
- May immunize others in populations
- Sustained immunity
What are subunit vaccines?
Contain immunological structural proteins or metabolites of an organism
What do subunit vaccines consist of?
Purified proteins
Synthetic peptides
Recombinant proteins
Ture/False. In naked DNA vaccines a gene of interest from a pathogen is cloned to a plasmid and delivered directly into the animal.
True.
The plasmids transfect host including APC’s and the pathogen gene is expressed and processed in APC for antigen presentation.
Naked DNA vaccines
What is passive immunization?
Performed antibodies are administered to a particular antigen for immediate, temporary immunological protection
____ sensitize a recipient for a hypersensitive reaction by inhibiting the endogenous antibody response.
Passive immunization