Vaccine (Keyword Definition)

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Vaccine	- "a preparation of micro-organisms or their antigenic components which can induce protective immunity against the appropriate pathogenic bacterium or virus but which does not itself cause disease. Vaccines may be composed of killed pathogenic micro-organisms (killed vaccines), or live non-pathogenic strains of virus or bacterium (live vaccines), or may be composed of isolated protein antigens (subunit vaccines)." (B73) - " a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and produce immunity to one or several disease, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products or a synthetic substitue, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease." (B125) - [Vaccination] the action of using a vaccine. (V.w6)	Vaccination

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Vaccine

- "a preparation of micro-organisms or their antigenic components which can induce protective immunity against the appropriate pathogenic bacterium or virus but which does not itself cause disease. Vaccines may be composed of killed pathogenic micro-organisms (killed vaccines), or live non-pathogenic strains of virus or bacterium (live vaccines), or may be composed of isolated protein antigens (subunit vaccines)." (B73)

- " a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and produce immunity to one or several disease, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products or a synthetic substitue, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease." (B125)

- [Vaccination] the action of using a vaccine. (V.w6)

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