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Describe vaccine technologies.
Vaccine are medical preparations containing dead, live or
attenuated microbes or their components that provide active
acquired immunity which helps prevent infectious diseases.
Vaccines are one of the most important medical development that
helps prevent morbidity and mortality caused by communicable and
noncommunicable infectious diseases.
Vaccination technology involves preparation of vaccine and their
administration Through various routes. There are different types of
vaccine available.
Killed or inactive vaccines contains microbial strains that are
deactivated or killed microbes.
Live vaccines contain live microbes but in weak form that are not
capable of causing disease.
Modified live vaccines are attenuated or variant strains of a
microbe.
Recombinant vaccine involves engineering a vaccine that contains a
pathogenic antigen with a harmless carrier or a DNA vaccine.
Synthetic vaccines are man made vaccines. They contain vaccines
that are synthetically produced.
Vaccines can be administered through intramuscular injections or
administered orally.