作者: Thomas Ebensen , Claudia Link , Carlos A. Guzm��n
DOI: 10.1002/3527600906.MCB.200400126
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摘要: Immunization, also called vaccination, is the most cost-effective intervention to prevent infectious diseases. This achieved by stimulating production of pathogen-specific antibodies and/or cellular immune responses. Vaccines have been mainly used for prophylaxis infections, that is, they are administered a large number healthy individuals confer protection against disease. However, development therapeutic vaccines and noninfectious diseases gaining interest. Classic antibacterial vaccines, which will be main subject this article, played critical role in efficient control major diseases, both humans animals. These classic were generated using inactivated or live attenuated organisms. More recently, new generation well-defined, safer, effective has emerged, based on use recombinant technology subcellular components. Keywords: DNA Vaccine; Inactivated Vaccine; Live Vaccine; Subunit Vaccine; Vaccine; Vaccination; Whole-cell vaccine