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Vaccines: Historical Perspective Immunity - state of protection from an infectious disease. 430 BC – Greek historian Thucydides - Athenian plague 15 th century – Chinese attempts to induce immunity 1718 – Mary Wortley Montagu – innoculated her children 1798 – Edward Jenner – milkmaids and cowpox/smallpox
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Vaccines: Historical Perspective early 1880’s – Cholera and chickens Attenuation hypothesis 1881 – Testing the hypothesis with anthrax and sheep 1885 – Rabies vaccine Louis Pasteur
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Vaccines Immunization – the process of producing a state of immunity in a subject. Vaccination – intentional administration of a harmless or less harmful form of a pathogen to induce a specific immune response that protects the individual against late exposure to the pathogen.
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Vaccines Passive immunity adaptive immunity conferred by the transfer of immune products, such as antibody or sensitized T cells, from an immune individual to a non- immune one. Natural maternal antibody Immune globulin Humanized monoclonal antibody Antitoxin
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Vaccines Active immunity – adaptive immunity that is induced by a natural exposure to a pathogen or by vaccination. Natural infection Vaccines Toxoid
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Vaccines Types of vaccines: Live attenuated Inactivated Subunit Conjugate DNA Recombinant
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Vaccines Multivalent Conjugate
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Vaccines Multivalent Conjugate
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Vaccines DNA Vaccines
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Vaccines Recombinant Vector Vaccines
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