PCB 4233C Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Polio Vaccine, Cowpox, Vaccinia
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Vaccine was cow pox virus: vaccinia virus, vacca- cow, thus the word vaccine. Vaccines activate the immune system: this protects from future exposure. It is fortunate circumstance that immunization with the cow pox virus provides people with protection against small pox. Some vaccines are made from whole viruses. Attenuated viruses: live viruses, not virulent. Methods for producing two types of viral vaccines. Viruses are cultivates in cells in tissue culture and then treated with a chemical or physical agent to yield inactivated viruses. Viruses are transferred from cells in tissue culture to new cells in tissue culture until a variant with reduced virulence emerges. These are attenuated viruses: the salk polio vaccine contains inactivated viruses, the sabin polio vaccine has attenuated viruses. Viral genes can be directly injected into a person"s body. Cells take up the viral dna and produce the proteins encoded by the viral genes on this.