PCB 4232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dna Vaccination, Edward Jenner, Hiv Vaccine

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Vaccines activate the immune system and protect it from future exposure. --different vaccine strategies: live attenuated virus = live non infectous virus, inactivated virus = virus that has been killed, synthetic peptides (p24 like, recombinant viral vectors, recombinant bacterial vectors, recombinant subunits, dna vaccines. Most efficient but most dangerous = live attenuated virus. Least efficinet but least dangerous = dna vaccine. Inactivated virus = cultivated cells that are treated with chemical or physical agent to inactivate it. Attenuated virus = virus cultivated in semi-permissive tissue until a variant with reduced virulence emerges. Dna vaccine use bacterial plasmids (small circular pieces of dna) Recombinant vaccines use other virus or bacteria to make proteins like the ones expressed in hiv. Subunit vaccines bacteria make viral proteins (pros and cons) Sterilizing vaccine given before infection , to produce antibodies for virus. Therapeutic vaccine to treat people who are already infected. Current hiv vaccine have been looking at preventinve measures.

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