One problem is that there are
several vaccine strains used to provide protection for the various diseases vaccines protect against.
Not exact matches
The flu
vaccine can protect against
several strains of the flu virus.
This year's
vaccine combines protection against the H1N1 virus and
several strains expected to be most common during this flu season which runs through March.
Flu
vaccines typically include a cocktail of
several strains of killed virus.
In addition,
vaccine - makers that use eggs can not begin developing new
vaccines that target new virus
strains until the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) creates a live - virus reference
strain for these companies to work with, a process that could take
several weeks.
In the new study, scientists built upon previous discoveries that a safe, non-reproducing
vaccine strain of T. gondii could cure mice of
several types of solid tumors, and identified which parasite proteins and which immunological pathways are required to break immune tolerance.
This means it might be necessary to develop
several different
vaccine strains to ensure one provoked sufficient response.
Efforts to develop a universal flu
vaccine may have stalled, but the research has revealed an antibody that protects against
several lethal flu
strains
Four years and
several country - wide studies later, there now is an established link between Pandemrix, a
vaccine against the H1N1
strain of the flu that was widely used in Europe, and some cases of narcolepsy.
He has made
several important contributions in this area including identifying a new
strain of CHIKV virus, identification of host cellular targets of HIV accessory genes, new novel DNA
vaccine approaches for HIV, CHIKV, RSV, Dengue, MERS and Zika among others.
The number of people who get sick with the flu, require hospitalization, or ultimately die from the virus changes annually depending on
several factors, including which
strain of the virus is dominant and the strength of that year's
vaccine.
The difficulty with leptospirosis
vaccines comes from the fact that there are
several strains of the disease and the
vaccine only covers one
strain.
Bordatella
vaccine protects dogs from
several strains of kennel cough.