attenuated vaccine
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attenuated
adjective
uk/əˈten.ju.eɪ.tɪd/us/əˈten.ju.eɪ.t̬ɪd/
weak ...
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vaccine
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈvæk.siːn/us/vækˈsiːn/
a substance that is put into the body of a person or animal to protect them from a disease by causing them to produce antibodies (=proteins that ...
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There are currently two types of vaccine licensed for use in preventing typhoid fever: a subunit vaccine and a liveattenuatedvaccine.
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An efficient liveattenuatedvaccinehas been licensed in many countries, but few have adopted routine childhood immunization.
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One remedy on which there has been work is intranasal liveattenuatedvaccine.
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The review also found evidence to conclude that the inactivated vaccine was safe, but required more high quality evidence to assess the safety of theattenuatedvaccine.
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This method is most commonly used for growth of influenza virus, bothattenuatedvaccineand inactivated vaccine forms.
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Attenuated vaccines infect recipients and produce immunity without causing disease.
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The alternative is that live, attenuated vaccines are produced, as currently, by undefined chemical mutagenesis with strains possessing a combination of uncharacterized lesions whose cumulative effects only are known.
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Attenuated vaccines also can not be used by immunocompromised individuals.
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Although most attenuated vaccines are viral, some are bacterial in nature.
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It may become possible to target oral attenuated vaccines to the gut mucosa.
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Both inactivated and live attenuated vaccines are available.
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Attenuated vaccines will revert to virulence by consecutive passage in chickens in densely populated areas, and may reassort with field strains, generating potentially important variants.
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Live attenuated vaccines have decreased pathogenicity.
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