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Complex Mixtures > Biological Products > Vaccines > Vaccines, Attenuated

Preferred term

Vaccines, Attenuated  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Live vaccines prepared from microorganisms which have undergone physical adaptation (e.g., by radiation or temperature conditioning) or serial passage in laboratory animal hosts or infected tissue/cell cultures, in order to produce avirulent mutant strains capable of inducing protective immunity.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Attenuated Vaccine
  • Vaccines, Live, Attenuated

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-ZKMBW4J3-5

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