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  • Vaccines, Attenuated

Vaccines, Attenuated(Topical Term)

Preferred form: Vaccines, Attenuated
Used for/see from:
  • n: Vaccines, Live, Attenuated
  • Attenuated Vaccine
  • n: Attenuated Vaccines
  • n: Vaccine, Attenuated

live vaccine; coord NIM with specific vaccine (IM)

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.

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