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
