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A strain of a virus whose pathogenicity has been reduced so that it will initiate the immune response without producing the specific disease.
attenuated virus
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- Pasteur treatment (treatment for infection by the rabies virus)
- pasteurism
- measles virus vaccine (immunology)
- Measles (infectious diseases/epidemiology)
- Mumps (infectious diseases/epidemiology)
- Poliomyelitis (infectious diseases/epidemiology)
- Antigen (immunology)
- leaf-roll virus; leaf roll; leafroll (wine-related term)
- Vaccination (medical science)
- How is a vaccine made?
- Chickenpox: Prevention
- Yellow fever
- Virus (virology)
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