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Viral Vaccines

Medical Definition:	Suspensions of attenuated or killed viruses administered for the prevention or treatment of infectious viral disease.
Guide Notes:	for specifics not indented here coord IM with specific virus /immunol (IM)

Viral Vaccines Categories.

	AIDS Vaccines - Vaccines or candidate vaccines containing inactivated HIV or some of its component antigens and designed to prevent or treat AIDS. Some vaccines containing antigens are recombinantly produced.
	Cytomegalovirus Vaccines - Vaccines or candidate vaccines used to prevent infection with CYTOMEGALOVIRUS.
	Herpesvirus Vaccines - Vaccines or candidate vaccines used to prevent infection by any virus from the family HERPESVIRIDAE.
	Influenza Vaccine - A killed virus vaccine. Both whole virion and subvirion vaccines are available. The composition of the vaccine is changed each year in response to antigenic shifts and changes in prevalence of influenza virus strains. The vaccine is usually bivalent or trivalent, containing one or two influenza virus A strains and one influenza virus B strain. Annual immunization before November is recommended for high-risk individuals (persons over 65 years of age and persons with chronic disease). (Dorland, 28th ed)
	Japanese Encephalitis Vaccines - Vaccines or candidate vaccines used to prevent infection with Japanese B encephalitis virus (ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE).
	Measles Vaccine - A live attenuated virus vaccine of chick embryo origin, used for routine immunization of children and for immunization of adolescents and adults who have not had measles or been immunized with live measles vaccine and have no serum antibodies against measles. Children are usually immunized with measles-mumps-rubella combination vaccine. (From Dorland, 28th ed)
	Mumps Vaccine - A live attenuated virus vaccine of chick embryo origin, used for routine immunization of children and for immunization of adolescents and adults who have not had mumps or been immunized with live mumps vaccine. Children are usually immunized with measles-mumps-rubella combinatiom vaccine. (From Dorland, 28th ed)
	Parainfluenza Vaccines - Vaccines or candidate vaccines used to prevent infection with parainfluenza viruses in humans and animals.
	Poliovirus Vaccines - Vaccines used to prevent POLIOMYELITIS. They include inactivated (POLIOVIRUS VACCINE, INACTIVATED) and oral vaccines (POLIOVIRUS VACCINE, ORAL).
	Pseudorabies Vaccines - Vaccines or candidate vaccines used to prevent PSEUDORABIES (Aujeszky's disease), a herpesvirus of swine and other animals.
	Rabies Vaccines - Vaccines or candidate vaccines used to prevent and treat RABIES. The inactivated virus vaccine is used for preexposure immunization to persons at high risk of exposure, and in conjunction with rabies immunoglobulin, for postexposure prophylaxis.
	Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccines - Vaccines or candidate vaccines used to prevent infection with RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES.
	Rotavirus Vaccines - Vaccines or candidate vaccines used to prevent infection with ROTAVIRUS.
	Rubella Vaccine - A live attenuated virus vaccine of duck embryo or human diploid cell tissue culture origin, used for routine immunization of children and for immunization of nonpregnant adolescent and adult females of childbearing age who are unimmunized and do not have serum antibodies to rubella. Children are usually immunized with measles-mumps-rubella combination vaccine. (Dorland, 28th ed)
	SAIDS Vaccines - Vaccines or candidate vaccines designed to prevent SAIDS; (SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME); and containing inactivated SIV or type D retroviruses or some of their component antigens.
	Smallpox Vaccine - A live VACCINIA VIRUS vaccine of calf lymph or chick embryo origin, used for immunization against smallpox. It is now recommended only for laboratory workers exposed to smallpox virus. Certain countries continue to vaccinate those in the military service. Complications that result from smallpox vaccination include vaccinia, secondary bacterial infections, and encephalomyelitis. (Dorland, 28th ed)
	Viral Hepatitis Vaccines - Any vaccine raised against any virus or viral derivative that causes hepatitis.
	Yellow Fever Vaccine - Vaccine used to prevent YELLOW FEVER. It consists of a live attenuated 17D strain of the YELLOW FEVER VIRUS.

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