Vaccines

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  • Created on: 15-01-18 18:58
What do vaccines do
Initiate the recipients own defence system to mount a defence
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What are the majority of commonly administered vaccinations?
Active immunisations
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Immunity can be life-long, however, in many cases what are given periodically?
Boosters
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More recently subunit vaccines have been developed that contain parts of what? that trigger what?
Part of the organism, trigger the immune response
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What are toxoids?
Subunit vaccines
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What are inactivated forms of toxins produced by some bacteria, so the immune response is against the toxin not the bacterium
Toxoids
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What is an example of a toxoid?
Tetanus toxoid
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In - vaccines the bacterium or virus is still - but “-”
live-attenuated, viable, weakened
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4 example of live-attenuated vaccines are?
Sabin polio vaccine, MMR, rabies, smallpox
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Inactivated/killed vaccines contain bacteria or viruses that have been exposed to what?
A denaturing agent e.g. formaldehyde
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What are 3 example of inactivated/killed vaccines?
influenza virus vaccines, HepA, the Salk polio vaccine
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In general, live or killed vaccines give longer lived immunity?
Live
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Vaccines do not contain the bacterium they are used to protect against are called?
Surrogate vaccines
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Which vaccine contains Mycobacterium bovis but is used to protect against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and cross-protects against Mycobacterium leprae?
BCG vaccine
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The vaccine used to eradicate smallpox contained what?
The related cox pox virus
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Vaccination breaks...
the transmission cycle
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Who are selective vaccinations offered to?
Individual at high risk of contracting disease
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Protection is conferred by giving the person antibodies is called?
Passive immunisation
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Why is the recipients protection usually short lived using passive immunisation?
Because the recipient’s immune system is not involved
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Tetanus, botulism, hepatitis B, and rabies are diseases that which treatment can be important for?
Passive immunisation
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Some risk of anaphylaxis and hypersensitivity with what treatment?
Passive immunisation
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