Active and passive immunity, vaccine types, excipients and licensing

Abstract Immunity is the state of protection against infectious disease conferred either through an immune response generated by immunization or previous infection or by other non-immunological factors. This article reviews active and passive immunity and the differences between them: it also descri...

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Published inOccupational medicine (Oxford) Vol. 57; no. 8; pp. 552 - 556
Main Author Baxter, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Oxford University Press 01.12.2007
Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
Subjects
Active immunity
Excipients
Humans
Immunity, Active - immunology
Immunity, Innate - immunology
immunization
Immunization - methods
immunoglobulin preparations
Licensure
passive immunity
vaccine excipients
vaccine licensing
vaccine types
Vaccines - classification
Vaccines - immunology
Vaccines, Attenuated - immunology
Vaccines, Inactivated - immunology
vaccine excipients
immunoglobulin preparations
passive immunity
vaccine types
immunization
Active immunity
vaccine licensing
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Summary:Abstract Immunity is the state of protection against infectious disease conferred either through an immune response generated by immunization or previous infection or by other non-immunological factors. This article reviews active and passive immunity and the differences between them: it also describes the four different commercially available vaccine types (live attenuated, killed/inactivated, subunit and toxoid): it also looks at how these different vaccines generate an adaptive immune response.
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ISSN:0962-7480
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DOI:10.1093/occmed/kqm110