Chemicals and Drugs

Attenuated Vaccines

Live vaccines prepared from microorganisms which have undergone physical adaptation (e.g., by radiation or temperature conditioning) or serial passage in laboratory animal hosts or infected tissue/cell cultures, in order to produce avirulent mutant strains capable of inducing protective immunity.

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Abstract

Live vaccines prepared from microorganisms which have undergone physical adaptation (e.g., by radiation or temperature conditioning) or serial passage in laboratory animal hosts or infected tissue/cell cultures, in order to produce avirulent mutant strains capable of inducing protective immunity.

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Synonyms

4 entry terms
  • Attenuated Vaccine
  • Vaccines, Attenuated
  • Vaccines, Live, Attenuated
  • Vaccine, Attenuated

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Aspects Covered

26 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, agonists, analysis, antagonists & inhibitors, biosynthesis, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, economics, genetics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, urine.

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Indexing Annotation

live vaccine; coord NIM with specific vaccine (IM)

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History Note

74(73)

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Previous Indexing

  • Vaccines (1966-1972)
  • specific vaccine (1966-1972)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Attenuated Vaccines. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014613. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014613
  2. Attenuated Vaccines. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenuated_vaccine
  3. Attenuated Vaccines. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1810913