Structured Summary
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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74(73)
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Previous Indexing
- Vaccines (1966-1972)
- specific vaccine (1966-1972)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Attenuated Vaccines. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014613. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014613
- Attenuated Vaccines. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenuated_vaccine
- Attenuated Vaccines. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1810913