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Investigative Techniques > Vaccine Development > Vaccine Efficacy

Preferred term

Vaccine Efficacy  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Vaccine Effectiveness

Scope note

  • A measurement of disease risk reduction among vaccinated compared to unvaccinated persons under ideal conditions such as in a clinical trial. Such disease reduction measured under typical field conditions is vaccine effectiveness. In contrast vaccine potency is measured in an assay to ensure proper dosing and storage of vaccines whereas vaccine immunogenicity measures its ability to induce an immune response in a vaccinated individual in observational studies.

History note

  • 2022

In other languages

  • rokotteen suojateho

    Finnish

  • rokotesuojan tehokkuus
  • rokotteen teho sairastumisriskin vähentämisessä
  • rokotteiden suojateho
  • rokotteiden teho sairastumisriskin vähentämisessä rokotetuilla verrattuna rokottamattomiin
  • Vaccineffektivitet

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000087507

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