The administration of antigenic material to stimulate the immune system of an individual to develop adaptive immunity to a disease.
Questions tagged [vaccination]
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Is it possible to combine live attenuated and non-live vaccines?
There are many combination vaccines available but I've noticed that there don't seem to be any with both live and non-live components, e.g. DTaP/IPV/MMR. Such combinations could be useful in some cases, since most developed countries give a second…
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What is the efficacy of Pertussis booster vaccine among different age groups?
The Murray Microbiology book says that it is prefentially 10 years, similarly Estonian and Finnish health associations.
However, my professor says that it can be 5-7 years.
I started to think if the age is affecting here to the result.
When should…
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Can an attenuated virus cause infection in some rare cases?
I just read in some comments, that some children got measles one week after getting the MMR shot. Afaik. MMR contains attenuated live virus, and the incubation period of measles is 10 days (+/- ? days). Can we be certain, that they didn't get…
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Are there any papers arguing against vaccination in French?
Disclaimer: This question is NOT about challenging the safety or efficacy of vaccines. It is only asking for tips on providing credible references that may show harmful effects of vaccination, if any.
In my French class, we were asked to debate an…
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Why is post-vaccination fever for 4CMenB so frequent?
When considering the introduction of 4CMenB vaccine, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said:
The sub-committee noted that the clinical trials data suggest that
when 4CMenB vaccine is given concomitantly with other routine
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Why do human vaccines affect different animals differently?
Doubtless the simple answer is that these animals differ, and that the amino acids of their ACE2 receptors differ. Are there other reasons?
Chan, working with his HKU colleague, microbiologist Kwok-Yung Yuen, and others, pinpointed the problem by…
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Might a previously administered MPSV4 vaccine react with a newly administered MCV-4 vaccine?
This is a hypothetical situation.
Meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine (MPSV4) is a vaccine against Neisseria meningitidis.
MCV4 is a conjugate vaccine.
I would like to know if the polysaccharide base could interact with the conjugate base.
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Barring Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), how else can vaccines enhance the infection?
The link to the 2007 article below was broken for me. I Googled and read it on NCBI.
Decades ago, vaccines developed against another coronavirus, feline infectious peritonitis virus, increased cats’ risk of developing the disease caused by the…
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Why are people not given every possible vaccine?
Vaccines for some diseases, like cholera, are not given in Australia because of how rare they are. Nonetheless, I don't see the harm in giving a cholera vaccine to every child like we do got Hepatitis B. If there's no harm, why not just give…
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