NALT

Preferred term

live vaccines

Chemical

Live vaccines prepared from microorganisms which have undergone physical adaptation (e.g., by radiation or temperature conditioning) or serial passage in laboratory animal hosts or infected tissue/cell cultures, in order to produce avirulent mutant strains capable of inducing protective immunity.

vaccines

attenuated vaccines
live attenuated vaccines

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

21652

Spanish

vacunas vivas
cepas atenuadas (vacunas)

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/13770

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Created 1/19/06, last modified 10/1/20