Vaccines Flashcards
What are vaccination?
Generation of artificially acquired active immunity
A person receives what in vaccines?
Antigen
Does a person actively mounts an immune response to the antigen?
Yes
What’s another way of vaccination?
A person is given an antibody ( passive vaccination )
What happened in 1798 with Edward Jenner?
Made the small pox vaccine
What does vaccine mean?
Suspension of organisms or parts of a organism that can induce immunity
What are the 5 vaccine types ?
( W, S, T, C, N )
Whole agent vaccines
Subunit vaccines
Toxoids
Conjugated vaccines
Nucleic acid vaccines
what are the 2 types of whole agent vaccines?
Killed or live attenuated
What is killed bacterium, inactivated virus’s in whole agent vaccines mean?
Unable to replicate
Does killed bacterium / inactivated viruses for whole agent vaccines might need what?
A booster shot
What are some examples of whole agent vaccines for killed bacterium?(2)
- old pertussis vaccine
- rabies vaccines
What are whole agent vaccines for attenuated ( weakened bacteria or viruses ) live?
Able to replicate but not virulent, mimic an infection
What is the danger of whole agent vaccines of attenuated live ?
They can be mutated back to dangerous forms
Should live attenuated vaccines be given to immunocompromised?
No!
What are examples of live attenuated vaccines?
MMR vaccine
What does MMR mean?
Measles
Mumps
Rubella
