Vaccines

Vaccines

Terms that relate to biological agents to the body that improves immunity to a particular desease. Vaccines contain a weaker version of the microbe so that it is easier to handle and further recognize by the host's immune system.

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Asthma

Health care; Vaccines

A chronic medical condition where the bronchial tubes (in the lungs) become easily irritated. This leads to constriction of the airways resulting in wheezing, coughing, difficulty breathing and ...

Strain

Health care; Vaccines

A specific version of an organism. Many diseases, including HIV/AIDS and hepatitis, have multiple strains.

Bone marrow

Health care; Vaccines

Soft tissue located within bones that produce all blood cells, including the ones that fight infection.

Serosurvey

Health care; Vaccines

Study measuring a person's risk of developing a particular disease.

Asymptomatic infection

Health care; Vaccines

The presence of an infection without symptoms. Also known as inapparent or subclinical infection.

Smallpox

Health care; Vaccines

An acute, highly infectious, often fatal disease caused by a poxvirus and characterised by high fever and aches with subsequent widespread eruption of pimples that blister, produce pus, and form ...