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vaccine

Any preparation of modified pathogens (viruses or bacteria) that is introduced into the body, usually either orally or by a hypodermic syringe, to induce the specific antibody reaction that produces immunity against a particular disease.

In 1796 Edward Jenner was the first to inoculate a child successfully with cowpox virus to produce immunity to smallpox. His method, the application of an infective agent to an abraded skin surface, is still used in smallpox inoculation.



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Immunologic and therapeutic evaluation of a synthetic peptide vaccine for the treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma.
About Bionor Immuno Bionor Immuno AS is an innovative biotech company developing synthetic peptide vaccines that stimulate cell mediated immunity.
Synthetic peptide vaccines, which use chemically-synthesized pieces of proteins, offer advantages over subunit or killed microbe vaccines in that they are well-defined chemical entities which are easy to manufacture and characterize, and they present no pathogen contamination concerns.
 
 
 
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