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Vaccines, Attenuated

"Vaccines, Attenuated" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Live vaccines prepared from microorganisms which have undergone physical adaptation (e.g., by radiation or temperature conditioning) or serial passage in laboratory animal hosts or infected tissue/cell cultures, in order to produce avirulent mutant strains capable of inducing protective immunity.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Vaccines, Attenuated" by people in this website by year, and whether "Vaccines, Attenuated" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 9 publications over 5 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2017
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