live vaccines
Attenuated microbe injections
Live vaccines contain weakened but still-living versions of the pathogens they protect against.
The weakened organisms can replicate enough to trigger an immune response without causing full-blown disease in healthy people: The MMR is a live vaccine, so immunocompromised patients may need alternatives.
Contrast with inactivated vaccines, which use killed pathogens.
- attenuatedLessened in force
- weakenedMade less capable
- immunityProtected from harm
- herd immunityWidespread resistance protecting all
- immune responseBody fighting foreign threats
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- pet vaccinesrabies shot, booster shot, booster shots, boosters, annual shots
mechanism of antigen presentation
live vaccinesmRNA vaccines
Immunizations using coded genetic instructions
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