Bacterial vaccine
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anthrax vaccine, cholera vaccine, dental caries vaccine, gonorrhea vaccine, Haemophilus influenzae vaccine, Neisseria meningitidis vaccine, pertussis vaccine, Salmonella vaccine, Shigella vaccine, Streptococcus vaccine, trachoma vaccine, tuberculosis vaccine
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- Another strategy to make a bacterial vaccine is to use part of the sugar coating (or polysaccharide) of the bacteria.
- During the period when a new bacterial vaccine is being developed, a small amount of a pure culture of that vaccine bacterium is grown and frozen away; this material is termed the "master seed bank.
- Antigen selection Identification of protective antigens of a pathogen to express in a recombinant attenuated bacterial vaccine is not an easy task.
- ) prepared from killed polyvalent bacterial vaccine is used as a pleural irritant for pleurodesis on patients with spontaneous pneumothorax.
- The only example of live bacterial vaccine is one against tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis: BCG).
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