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TB vaccine is a live attenuated vaccine (LAV). This type of vaccine prepared from living micro-organisms (viruses, bacteria currently available) that have been weakened under laboratory conditions.
LAV vaccines will replicate in a vaccinated individual and produce an immune response but usually cause a mild or no disease.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoTB vaccine is a live attenuated vaccine (LAV)A vaccine.
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∙ 10y agoYes, sort of, the chickenpox vaccine contains a small amount of weakened, live varicella zoster virus.
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∙ 10y agoYes. The rabies vaccine is live vaccine. You have HDCV, chicken embryo cell vaccine and vero monkey cell culture vaccines available.
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Who invented tuberculosis vaccine?
Albert Calmette and Camille Guerin were the first to successfully make a tuberculosis vaccine in 1906.
Is VCG a vaccine for chickenpox?
That is actually BCG vaccine. BCG vaccine, also called as Bacillus Calmatte Guarin vaccine is meant for tuberculosis and not for chicken pox.
What is BCG vaccination?
The BCG vaccine is given to prevent tuberculosis. This vaccine is anywhere between 0 percent and 80 percent effective in preventing tuberculosis.
Is there a vacine for tuberculosis?
there is vaccines for newborns called BCG given intradermally at deltiod. This vaccine will give 50% protection of Tuberculosis to children. Have all newborn vaccinated with BCG especially to countries where TB is common.
Is tuberculosis armed or dangerous?
tuberculosis can be life threatening but yet rare of it to ask a doctor or vaccine doctor how serious it can be.
By what name is the tuberculosis vaccine better known?
The BCG Vaccine (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin)It has small amounts of tb bacterium
Who invented vaccination for tuberculosis?
The discovery was made by the French Calmette and Guerin who instituted the basis for the vaccine against tuberculosis by using a low virulence Tb bacteria vaccine. The last step needed in the therapy of tuberculosis was made in the middle of the Second World War when chemotherapy was invented.
Who invented a vaccine for tb?
The discovery was made by the French Calmette and Guerin who instituted the basis for the vaccine against tuberculosis by using a low virulence Tb bacteria vaccine. The last step needed in the therapy of tuberculosis was made in the middle of the Second World War when chemotherapy was invented.
Can tb be prevented through immunization?
Tuberculosis is totally preventable, simply by avoiding contact with those who have been exposed to the disease. The are also a number of medications that can be prescribed for those who have inadvertently been exposed to tuberculosis.
What has the author Richard Prigge written?
Richard Prigge has written: 'Fundamentals and possibilities in anti-tuberculosis vaccination' -- subject(s): BCG Vaccine, Prevention & control, Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
Is the tuberculosis vaccine easy to get?
Very readily available anywhere in Europe or North America
IS HPV vaccine live virus?
The HPV vaccine is a genetically modified vaccine and therefore is not considered to be live.
