Types of Vaccine

TYPES OF VACCINE

Type of vaccine

Example

1. First generation vaccines
(conventional vaccines)

2. Second generation vaccines

  • Subunit vaccines
  • Peptides vaccines
  • Conjugate vaccines
  • Anti – idiotypic vaccines.

3. Third generation vaccines
(all recombinant vaccines and nucleic acid vaccines)

  • Recombinant subunit vaccines
  • Recombinant synthetic peptide vaccines
  • Marker vaccines
  • Deletion mutant vaccines

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