Sentences with phrase «dead viruses»

Some are made with live bacteria or viruses while others are made with dead viruses or bacteria.

The researchers followed the DNA injection with a traditional seasonal flu shot, which contains dead viruses.

Here, large amounts of dead virus are injected into the patient.

There are advantages to their use over vaccines containing dead viruses: because a live virus can replicate, less of it is needed to make a vaccine.

This provides a more accurate and better immune response than just using dead virus, but occasionally these vaccines can result in a real infection (such as dogs who get kennel cough signs after getting a Bordetella vaccine).

In further experiments, the team found that antibodies that trigger enhancement dominate the human immune response to the live virus, so people vaccinated with whole dead virus may respond in the same way.

A vaccine called IPV, made of dead viruses, exists but is too expensive for poor countries, which routinely use tOPV.

Truth or fiction: To protect us from disease, we are inoculated with dead viruses and germs.

The injected flu shot contains an inactivated or dead virus that stimulates your body to produce antibodies to the flu.

Even with 94 percent coverage [via the injected vaccine with the dead virus] you still have 6 percent of the population that can get the virus, and there are still risks among the 94 percent, too.

Unlike any other vaccine designed for human use, this product would be a DNA vaccine that only contains a particular part of the pathogen (rather than a vaccine with an inactivated live or dead virus, for example).

Provenge, and other immunologically based treatments under development do not prevent disease the way the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine staves off cervical cancer by using a weakened or dead virus.

But vaccines, which contain both live and dead viruses, killed bacteria, genetically engineered DNA and chemical preservatives, are injected directly into the bloodstream, bypassing the natural immune response.

In a «Killed» vaccine, dead virus is used so that it can't replicate or cause disease, but all the bits are there to stimulate the immune system so it can recognize it later.

Puppies are usually given killed rabies vaccine, which uses a dead virus, when they're between 16 weeks and 4 months of age.