Vaccines, Attenuated

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.

Year introduced: 1974(1973)

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Tree Number(s): D20.215.894.811

MeSH Unique ID: D014613

Entry Terms:

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

Previous Indexing:

• specific vaccine (1966-1972)
• Vaccines (1966-1972)

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Vaccines, Attenuated