0 a substance containing a virus or bacterium in a form that is not harmful, given to a person or animal to prevent them from getting the disease that the virus or bacterium causes:
1 a special substance that you take into your body to prevent a disease, and that contains a weakened or dead form of the disease-causing organism
All of these adhesion molecules have been proposed as vaccine targets.
In the majority of patients (influenza vaccine, 98 % and pneumococcal vaccine, 94 %), vaccination was carried out in general practice.
Liposomes are lipid membrane particles that serve as vehicles or delivery systems for vaccine antigens.
All persons without spleen should be given pneumococcal vaccine.
The second dose of vaccine is given to immunize children with primary vaccine failure, and those children that did not receive the first dose.
Factors affecting the immunogenicity of oral poliovirus vaccine in developing countries : review.
A vaccine directed against salivary components appears promising.
The next step is to extend these analyses to a more realistic model having both natural immunity and vaccine effects.