Vaccines Flashcards
Vaccination are aka
Immunizations
Ag means
Artifically
Person actively mounts an immune response to
The Ag
A person getting a ready-made ab means they are getting
Passive vaccination
Who began a series of experiments to prevent smallpox
Edward Jenner
What virus was completely neutralized?
Smallpox
What is a vaccine
A suspension of organisms or parts of an organism that can induce immunity
Whole agent vaccines (2)
Live attenuated
Killed
5 types of vaccines
Whole agent
Subunit
Toxoids
Conjugated
Nucleic acid
Examples of killed whole agent vaccines
Old pertussis vaccine
Rabies vaccine
Killed whole agent are unable to
Replicate
May need booster shots
Killed whole vaccines
Attenuated means
Weakend
“Modified-live” vaccine
Whole agent attenuated or live
Modified-live vaccines should not be given to who
Immunocompromised patients
example of attenuated whole agent vaccines
MMR vaccine= measles, mumps and rubella viruses