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Complex Mixtures > Biological Products > Vaccines > Vaccines, Attenuated

Preferred term

Vaccines, Attenuated  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Attenuated Vaccine
  • Vaccine, Attenuated
  • Vaccines, Live, Attenuated

Note

  • live vaccine; coord NIM with specific vaccine (IM)

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 74(73)

In other languages

  • heikennetyt rokotteet

    Finnish

  • heikennetty rokote
  • heikennettyjä taudinaiheuttajia sisältävä rokote
  • heikennettyjä taudinaiheuttajia sisältävät rokotteet
  • Vacciner, försvagade

    Swedish

  • Vacciner, attenuerade

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014613

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