Plague vaccine
 Plague vaccine being administered | |
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| Target | Yersinia pestis |
| Vaccine type | Attenuated |
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| AHFS/Drugs.com | Micromedex Detailed Consumer Information |
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Plague vaccine is a vaccine used against Yersinia pestis to prevent the plague.[1] Inactivated bacterial vaccines have been used since 1890 but are less effective against the pneumonic plague, so live, attenuated vaccines and recombinant protein vaccines have been developed to prevent the disease.[2]
Plague immunization
The first plague vaccine was developed by bacteriologist
A plague vaccine is used for an induction of active specific immunity to plague in a susceptible organism after administration of a plague serum or plague immunological in people with an immediate risk of developing the disease.[7]
A systematic review by the
Cochrane Collaboration found no studies of sufficient quality to be included in the review, and were thus unable to make any statement on the efficacy of modern vaccines.[8]
References
- ^ Plague+Vaccine at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- PMID 17652523.
- ^ a b "Waldemar Haffkine: The vaccine pioneer the world forgot". BBC News. 2020-12-11. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
- ^ a b "WALDEMAR MORDECAI HAFFKINE". Haffkine Institute. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
- PMID 21122347.
- S2CID 42075270.
- ^ "WHO | Zoonotic Infections". www.who.int. Archived from the original on 22 March 2006. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- PMID 10796565.
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