vaccine
- Guideline or reference source
- HC-SC Glossary of terms
- Definition
- A preparation that contains an agent or its components, administered to stimulate an immune response that will protect a person from illness due to that agent. A therapeutic (treatment) vaccine is given after disease has started and is intended to reduce or arrest the progress of the disease. A preventive (prophylactic) vaccine is intended to prevent disease from starting. Agents used in vaccines may be whole-killed (inactive), live-attenuated (weakened) or artificially manufactured. It can be created using the recombinant DNA process.
- Narrower Term
- mock-up vaccine
- Related Term
- vaccine adjuvant
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