In a world grappling with infectious diseases and global health challenges, the presentation titled "Vaccine Development: From Concept to Early Clinical Testing" is a captivating and informative exploration of the intricate journey vaccines undergo before reaching the crucial stage of early clinical testing. This presentation delves into the remarkable and often arduous process of turning scientific concepts into potential life-saving vaccines, highlighting the vital role they play in safeguarding public health.
This document provides an overview of the history and development of vaccine drug delivery systems. It discusses early methods of vaccination including variolation and Edward Jenner's development of the smallpox vaccine in 1796. Major developments include Louis Pasteur's attenuated vaccines in the 1880s, the creation of inactivated toxins in the 1920s, and the polio vaccines of the 1950s. Recent research focuses on new delivery systems like DNA vaccines, viral vectors, and plant vaccines. The document also examines mechanisms of antigen uptake and presentation, types of vaccines, and delivery methods like liposomes, microparticles, and oral vaccination.
Types of Vaccinesproduced by cell culture methods.pptxAnjana Goel
Vaccines can be categorized as whole-organism, purified macromolecules, or newer approaches like recombinant or DNA vaccines. Historically, live attenuated vaccines were developed through serial passage in cell cultures or animal embryos to reduce virulence while maintaining immunogenicity. Common methods to attenuate bacteria include serial passage, chemical mutagenesis, or genetic engineering; for viruses, attenuation techniques include serial passage, reassortment, or deletion of virulence genes. Attenuated vaccines stimulate protective immunity by replicating within the host and eliciting antigen-presenting cells to activate adaptive immune responses.
This document summarizes the history and development of vaccines. It discusses how Edward Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine in 1796 and how vaccines for other diseases like cholera, anthrax, and plague were developed between 1890-1950. Modern vaccines use attenuated or inactivated forms of pathogens. New delivery systems are being researched like DNA vaccines, viral vectors, and plant-based vaccines. Liposomes and virosomes can be used to deliver subunit vaccines and improve immune responses. Oral vaccines are being developed but face challenges with degradation in the gastrointestinal tract.
Reverse vaccinology uses genomics and bioinformatics to identify antigens that could be used in vaccines, rather than relying on culturing pathogens. It sequences the genome of a pathogen and predicts potential antigens, allowing development of vaccines for pathogens that cannot be grown in culture. This approach was used to develop a vaccine for Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B, the first reverse vaccinology vaccine approved for use. Traditional vaccinology is limited by only being able to use antigens that are abundant during infection and that the pathogen can be cultured, whereas reverse vaccinology makes all antigens available for vaccine development.
The document discusses the immune system and vaccination. It provides information on:
- The components and functions of the immune system in protecting the body.
- The differences between natural immunity present at birth and acquired immunity developed after exposure to pathogens.
- How the immune system of children is less developed than adults until around age 1.
- The definition of vaccination as administering a substance to prevent disease, typically using a killed or weakened pathogen.
- The early history of vaccination, including Jenner's pioneering use of the cowpox vaccine to prevent smallpox in the late 18th century.
- Vaccines work by exposing the immune system to antigens from pathogens, stimulating the body's immune response without causing illness. There are several types of vaccines including live attenuated, inactivated, toxoids, subunit/conjugate, and recombinant/DNA vaccines.
- Edward Jenner is considered the founder of vaccinology for his work developing the smallpox vaccine in 1796. Louis Pasteur later developed vaccines through attenuating pathogens and the term vaccine comes from his work with the cowpox virus.
- Vaccine development involves pre-clinical testing in labs and animals followed by four phases of clinical trials to assess safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy in humans. The goal is to license an effective
This document provides an overview of vaccine drug delivery systems. It begins with an introduction that defines what a vaccine is and its three main forms. The history section outlines the development of important early vaccines including the world's first vaccine for smallpox developed by Edward Jenner in 1796. Key points about the ideal characteristics of vaccines and the advantages and disadvantages of various vaccine types are summarized. The document also briefly discusses mechanisms of vaccine uptake, quality control aspects, global vaccination trends, and concludes with references.
Immunization (either natural or artificial) provides protection to body against foreign antigenic species. Recent developments in this field have lead to the successful treatment of many such health disorders.
This document provides an overview of the history and development of vaccine drug delivery systems. It discusses early methods of vaccination including variolation and Edward Jenner's development of the smallpox vaccine in 1796. Major developments include Louis Pasteur's attenuated vaccines in the 1880s, the creation of inactivated toxins in the 1920s, and the polio vaccines of the 1950s. Recent research focuses on new delivery systems like DNA vaccines, viral vectors, and plant vaccines. The document also examines mechanisms of antigen uptake and presentation, types of vaccines, and delivery methods like liposomes, microparticles, and oral vaccination.
Types of Vaccinesproduced by cell culture methods.pptxAnjana Goel
Vaccines can be categorized as whole-organism, purified macromolecules, or newer approaches like recombinant or DNA vaccines. Historically, live attenuated vaccines were developed through serial passage in cell cultures or animal embryos to reduce virulence while maintaining immunogenicity. Common methods to attenuate bacteria include serial passage, chemical mutagenesis, or genetic engineering; for viruses, attenuation techniques include serial passage, reassortment, or deletion of virulence genes. Attenuated vaccines stimulate protective immunity by replicating within the host and eliciting antigen-presenting cells to activate adaptive immune responses.
This document summarizes the history and development of vaccines. It discusses how Edward Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine in 1796 and how vaccines for other diseases like cholera, anthrax, and plague were developed between 1890-1950. Modern vaccines use attenuated or inactivated forms of pathogens. New delivery systems are being researched like DNA vaccines, viral vectors, and plant-based vaccines. Liposomes and virosomes can be used to deliver subunit vaccines and improve immune responses. Oral vaccines are being developed but face challenges with degradation in the gastrointestinal tract.
Reverse vaccinology uses genomics and bioinformatics to identify antigens that could be used in vaccines, rather than relying on culturing pathogens. It sequences the genome of a pathogen and predicts potential antigens, allowing development of vaccines for pathogens that cannot be grown in culture. This approach was used to develop a vaccine for Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B, the first reverse vaccinology vaccine approved for use. Traditional vaccinology is limited by only being able to use antigens that are abundant during infection and that the pathogen can be cultured, whereas reverse vaccinology makes all antigens available for vaccine development.
The document discusses the immune system and vaccination. It provides information on:
- The components and functions of the immune system in protecting the body.
- The differences between natural immunity present at birth and acquired immunity developed after exposure to pathogens.
- How the immune system of children is less developed than adults until around age 1.
- The definition of vaccination as administering a substance to prevent disease, typically using a killed or weakened pathogen.
- The early history of vaccination, including Jenner's pioneering use of the cowpox vaccine to prevent smallpox in the late 18th century.
- Vaccines work by exposing the immune system to antigens from pathogens, stimulating the body's immune response without causing illness. There are several types of vaccines including live attenuated, inactivated, toxoids, subunit/conjugate, and recombinant/DNA vaccines.
- Edward Jenner is considered the founder of vaccinology for his work developing the smallpox vaccine in 1796. Louis Pasteur later developed vaccines through attenuating pathogens and the term vaccine comes from his work with the cowpox virus.
- Vaccine development involves pre-clinical testing in labs and animals followed by four phases of clinical trials to assess safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy in humans. The goal is to license an effective
This document provides an overview of vaccine drug delivery systems. It begins with an introduction that defines what a vaccine is and its three main forms. The history section outlines the development of important early vaccines including the world's first vaccine for smallpox developed by Edward Jenner in 1796. Key points about the ideal characteristics of vaccines and the advantages and disadvantages of various vaccine types are summarized. The document also briefly discusses mechanisms of vaccine uptake, quality control aspects, global vaccination trends, and concludes with references.
Immunization (either natural or artificial) provides protection to body against foreign antigenic species. Recent developments in this field have lead to the successful treatment of many such health disorders.
This document discusses human parasite vaccines. It begins by explaining what vaccines do in stimulating the host's protective immune response. Developing effective parasite vaccines faces challenges including not fully understanding the parasite's life cycle and which stages elicit a protective immune response. Effective vaccines must produce long-lasting protection without boosting and be low-cost, stable, and safe. Progress has been limited for parasite vaccines due to parasites' ability to evade the immune system, uncertainty regarding which antigens stimulate protection, and differences between animal models and human immune responses. Major human parasitic diseases discussed include malaria, African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, intestinal protozoa, schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis
Recent advances in vaccine development
The document discusses recent advances in vaccine development technologies, including DNA vaccines, transgenic plant vaccines, sugar glass vaccines, skin patch vaccines, and combination vaccines. DNA vaccines work by delivering pathogen genes into the body to produce antigens and elicit an immune response. Transgenic plant vaccines produce antigens in edible plants that are eaten to deliver the vaccine. Sugar glass vaccines preserve vaccine potency by immobilizing antigens in a sugar glass matrix. Skin patch vaccines target skin immune cells for vaccination. Combination vaccines provide protection against multiple diseases in a single vaccine dose. The document also discusses challenges in vaccine development like inadequate preclinical data, lack of information on target populations, high development costs, and antigenic variation requiring constant vaccine
The document discusses the history and types of vaccination. It describes how Edward Jenner observed that milkmaids exposed to cowpox did not get smallpox, leading him to develop the smallpox vaccine in 1796. Since then, vaccines have been developed for over 20 diseases and have saved millions of lives worldwide by training the immune system to recognize and fight pathogens. Vaccines can be live attenuated, inactivated, toxoid, subunit, polysaccharide or genetic based.
Vaccines work by exposing the body to antigens from pathogens to trigger an immune response. When first exposed, it takes time for the body to produce antibodies, but memory cells remain to allow faster response to future exposure. Vaccines introduce antigens to stimulate this immune response, protecting against disease. Major types include inactivated, live-attenuated, mRNA, and subunit/toxoid vaccines. Vaccination has helped reduce disease and mortality worldwide through innovations since Jenner's smallpox vaccine and ongoing efforts like polio and COVID-19 vaccine development.
Vaccination: Be immunized to have a healthy lifeNimisha Tewari
Vaccination provides both individual and community protection against infectious diseases by boosting the host's immune system through active immunization. It produces long-lasting immunity similar to natural infection but without risk of disease. Vaccines contain weakened or killed pathogens or their components to stimulate antibody production or immunity. They are rigorously tested for safety and efficacy before approval and widespread use. While rare side effects may occur, vaccination has saved millions of lives by preventing deadly diseases like smallpox and nearly eradicating others such as polio.
Parasite Vaccines in Trials and in Usedranjansarma
Current Parasitic Vaccines: in Use and in Trial
There are several challenges to developing effective parasitic vaccines. Parasites have complex life cycles and evade the immune system, making the identification of protective antigens difficult. Few parasitic vaccines are currently licensed. The RTS,S vaccine for malaria is the leading candidate and aims to stimulate immunity against the liver stage of Plasmodium falciparum. Efforts are also being made to develop vaccines for other protozoan parasites like Leishmania as well as helminthic parasites such as hookworm and Schistosoma. Overcoming issues related to the protective immune response, antigen expression and variation, and appropriate animal models is key to advancing the development of new
The document discusses various aspects of vaccines including:
1. It defines what a vaccine is and how it works to provide immunity.
2. It outlines several key properties and factors that are important for an ideal vaccine, including safety, effectiveness, ease of administration, stability and cost.
3. It describes some common reasons why producing certain vaccines can fail, such as rapid pathogen evolution or a disease not conferring immunity upon exposure.
4. It provides details on different methods used to develop live attenuated vaccines including serial passaging, chemical mutagenesis, and genetic engineering. It gives examples for each method.
The document discusses edible vaccines, which involve genetically engineering plants to express vaccine antigens that stimulate immune responses when consumed. It provides examples of research efforts to develop edible vaccines for diseases like hepatitis B, cholera, and malaria by expressing relevant antigens in crops. Significant challenges remain, such as ensuring vaccine antigens maintain integrity during storage, overcoming safety concerns, and determining optimal dosing for oral vaccines.
Vaccines have been revolutionary for the prevention of infectious diseases. Despite worldwide immunization of children against the six devastating diseases, 20% of infants are still left un-immunized; responsible for approximately two million unnecessary deaths every year, especially in the remote and impoverished parts of the globe. This is because of the constraints on vaccine production, distribution and delivery. One hundred percent coverage is desirable, because un-immunized populations in remote areas can spread infections and epidemics in the immunized safe areas, which have comparatively low herd immunity. For some infectious diseases, immunizations either do not exist or they are unreliable or very expensive. Immunization through DNA vaccines is an alternative but is an expensive approach, with disappointing immune response. Hence the search is on for cost-effective, easy-to-administer, easy-to-store, fail-safe and socio-culturally readily acceptable vaccines and their delivery systems. As Hippocrates said, Let thy food be thy medicine, scientists suggest that plants and plant viruses can be genetically engineered to produce vaccines against diseases such as dental caries; and life-threatening infections like diarrhea, AIDS, etc (Lal et al., 2007)
1) There are various conditions that can cause severe immunosuppression including congenital immunodeficiencies, HIV infection, malnutrition, cancers, and immunosuppressive medications.
2) Live virus vaccines are contraindicated for severely immunocompromised individuals while killed/inactivated vaccines are generally safe but may require higher doses or boosters.
3) Immunocompromised patients can be divided into three groups - those severely immunocompromised not due to HIV, those with HIV infection, and those with limited immune deficits who may need special vaccines or doses.
This document provides an overview of advancements in vaccinology. It discusses the concept and types of vaccines including live attenuated, inactivated, toxoid, subunit, conjugate, DNA, and recombinant vaccines. It describes the process of designing vaccines including determining antigens, conducting pre-clinical and clinical trials. New approaches like reverse vaccinology and edible vaccines are also summarized. Reverse vaccinology uses genomic sequencing to predict vaccine candidates while edible vaccines aim to induce mucosal immunity by expressing antigens in edible plants. The document outlines the development of several vaccines including the first successful meningococcal B vaccine which was developed using reverse vaccinology.
This document discusses immunity and defines the two main types as innate (native) immunity and adaptive (acquired) immunity. It provides details on:
- Innate immunity is non-specific and includes barriers like skin and mucous membranes, antimicrobial substances, phagocytes, inflammation and fever responses. It is not affected by prior exposure and is genetically determined.
- Adaptive immunity is antigen-specific, develops diversity and memory, allows self/non-self discrimination. It includes active immunity from natural infection or vaccination and passive immunity from maternal antibodies.
- Active immunity is long-lasting and provides both cellular and humoral responses after a latent period. Passive immunity is short-term and provides immediate but
1) Vaccines are biological preparations that help improve immunity against specific diseases. They contain weakened or killed forms of pathogens that stimulate immune system memory without causing illness.
2) Edward Jenner developed the first vaccine in 1796 using cowpox to provide immunity to smallpox. There are several types of vaccines including live attenuated, inactivated, subunit, toxoid, and recombinant vector vaccines.
3) Vaccines work by exposing the immune system to antigens from pathogens. This triggers production of antibodies and memory cells that can fight the pathogen if exposed in the future, providing immunity. While vaccines have many benefits like disease prevention and eradication, some risks also exist.
Vaccines provide immunity to diseases by exposing the immune system to agents that resemble disease-causing pathogens. The first vaccine was developed by Edward Jenner in 1796 to prevent smallpox. Since then, vaccines have been created to protect against many additional diseases. Newer vaccines continue to be developed using technologies like recombinant DNA. Vaccines are necessary public health tools that help prevent disease outbreaks in a cost-effective manner.
Specific prophylaxis and therapy of infectious diseases. Vaccines & toxoidesEneutron
Vaccines provide protection against infectious diseases by exposing individuals to antigens from pathogens in a way that does not cause disease. There are several types of vaccines, including live attenuated vaccines which use weakened live pathogens, and inactivated vaccines which use killed pathogens. Live vaccines typically produce stronger and longer-lasting immunity but carry some risk, while inactivated vaccines are safer but may require booster doses to maintain protection. Both vaccine types aim to stimulate the immune system's memory response to future pathogens, protecting individuals and populations through herd immunity when widely adopted.
Hepatitis b virus in haemodialysis patients. mostafa abdel salam mohamed, muhdarsh 1980
This document discusses vaccination and occult hepatitis in dialysis patients. It provides an overview of vaccination, including how vaccines work and milestones in immunization history. It then discusses challenges to vaccination response in dialysis patients due to immune suppression. Rates of hepatitis B surface antigen positivity vary globally among dialysis populations, from under 1% to over 16%. Occult hepatitis B can occur when hepatitis B virus DNA is present despite surface antigen being undetectable. Liver biopsy is the definitive way to assess liver disease activity before antiviral treatment or transplantation.
Vaccination: how vaccination helps to prevent diseasesLekhan Lodhi
The document discusses vaccination and immunization. It defines vaccination as stimulating protective immune responses through exposure to non-pathogenic forms of microbes. A vaccine produces specific protection against a disease by being antigenic but not pathogenic. Immunization makes a person immune or resistant to an infectious disease typically through vaccine administration. The first empirical proof of protective immunity was provided by Edward Jenner through vaccinating against smallpox using cowpox. Smallpox was possible to eradicate due to unique biological factors and the effectiveness of the smallpox vaccine. The document also discusses vaccine design, mechanisms of protection, types of vaccines including live, inactivated, toxoids, cellular fraction and recombinant vaccines, and routes and schemes of immun
Bacterial vaccines have helped eliminate or reduce several infectious diseases. Common bacterial vaccines protect against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, pneumococcal disease, Hib, meningococcal meningitis, typhoid, cholera and more. Vaccines work through active immunization by vaccination or passive immunization using antibodies. Ongoing research continues to develop new vaccines and improve vaccine effectiveness.
ANAMOLOUS SECONDARY GROWTH IN DICOT ROOTS.pptxRASHMI M G
Abnormal or anomalous secondary growth in plants. It defines secondary growth as an increase in plant girth due to vascular cambium or cork cambium. Anomalous secondary growth does not follow the normal pattern of a single vascular cambium producing xylem internally and phloem externally.
This document discusses human parasite vaccines. It begins by explaining what vaccines do in stimulating the host's protective immune response. Developing effective parasite vaccines faces challenges including not fully understanding the parasite's life cycle and which stages elicit a protective immune response. Effective vaccines must produce long-lasting protection without boosting and be low-cost, stable, and safe. Progress has been limited for parasite vaccines due to parasites' ability to evade the immune system, uncertainty regarding which antigens stimulate protection, and differences between animal models and human immune responses. Major human parasitic diseases discussed include malaria, African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, intestinal protozoa, schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis
Recent advances in vaccine development
The document discusses recent advances in vaccine development technologies, including DNA vaccines, transgenic plant vaccines, sugar glass vaccines, skin patch vaccines, and combination vaccines. DNA vaccines work by delivering pathogen genes into the body to produce antigens and elicit an immune response. Transgenic plant vaccines produce antigens in edible plants that are eaten to deliver the vaccine. Sugar glass vaccines preserve vaccine potency by immobilizing antigens in a sugar glass matrix. Skin patch vaccines target skin immune cells for vaccination. Combination vaccines provide protection against multiple diseases in a single vaccine dose. The document also discusses challenges in vaccine development like inadequate preclinical data, lack of information on target populations, high development costs, and antigenic variation requiring constant vaccine
The document discusses the history and types of vaccination. It describes how Edward Jenner observed that milkmaids exposed to cowpox did not get smallpox, leading him to develop the smallpox vaccine in 1796. Since then, vaccines have been developed for over 20 diseases and have saved millions of lives worldwide by training the immune system to recognize and fight pathogens. Vaccines can be live attenuated, inactivated, toxoid, subunit, polysaccharide or genetic based.
Vaccines work by exposing the body to antigens from pathogens to trigger an immune response. When first exposed, it takes time for the body to produce antibodies, but memory cells remain to allow faster response to future exposure. Vaccines introduce antigens to stimulate this immune response, protecting against disease. Major types include inactivated, live-attenuated, mRNA, and subunit/toxoid vaccines. Vaccination has helped reduce disease and mortality worldwide through innovations since Jenner's smallpox vaccine and ongoing efforts like polio and COVID-19 vaccine development.
Vaccination: Be immunized to have a healthy lifeNimisha Tewari
Vaccination provides both individual and community protection against infectious diseases by boosting the host's immune system through active immunization. It produces long-lasting immunity similar to natural infection but without risk of disease. Vaccines contain weakened or killed pathogens or their components to stimulate antibody production or immunity. They are rigorously tested for safety and efficacy before approval and widespread use. While rare side effects may occur, vaccination has saved millions of lives by preventing deadly diseases like smallpox and nearly eradicating others such as polio.
Parasite Vaccines in Trials and in Usedranjansarma
Current Parasitic Vaccines: in Use and in Trial
There are several challenges to developing effective parasitic vaccines. Parasites have complex life cycles and evade the immune system, making the identification of protective antigens difficult. Few parasitic vaccines are currently licensed. The RTS,S vaccine for malaria is the leading candidate and aims to stimulate immunity against the liver stage of Plasmodium falciparum. Efforts are also being made to develop vaccines for other protozoan parasites like Leishmania as well as helminthic parasites such as hookworm and Schistosoma. Overcoming issues related to the protective immune response, antigen expression and variation, and appropriate animal models is key to advancing the development of new
The document discusses various aspects of vaccines including:
1. It defines what a vaccine is and how it works to provide immunity.
2. It outlines several key properties and factors that are important for an ideal vaccine, including safety, effectiveness, ease of administration, stability and cost.
3. It describes some common reasons why producing certain vaccines can fail, such as rapid pathogen evolution or a disease not conferring immunity upon exposure.
4. It provides details on different methods used to develop live attenuated vaccines including serial passaging, chemical mutagenesis, and genetic engineering. It gives examples for each method.
The document discusses edible vaccines, which involve genetically engineering plants to express vaccine antigens that stimulate immune responses when consumed. It provides examples of research efforts to develop edible vaccines for diseases like hepatitis B, cholera, and malaria by expressing relevant antigens in crops. Significant challenges remain, such as ensuring vaccine antigens maintain integrity during storage, overcoming safety concerns, and determining optimal dosing for oral vaccines.
Vaccines have been revolutionary for the prevention of infectious diseases. Despite worldwide immunization of children against the six devastating diseases, 20% of infants are still left un-immunized; responsible for approximately two million unnecessary deaths every year, especially in the remote and impoverished parts of the globe. This is because of the constraints on vaccine production, distribution and delivery. One hundred percent coverage is desirable, because un-immunized populations in remote areas can spread infections and epidemics in the immunized safe areas, which have comparatively low herd immunity. For some infectious diseases, immunizations either do not exist or they are unreliable or very expensive. Immunization through DNA vaccines is an alternative but is an expensive approach, with disappointing immune response. Hence the search is on for cost-effective, easy-to-administer, easy-to-store, fail-safe and socio-culturally readily acceptable vaccines and their delivery systems. As Hippocrates said, Let thy food be thy medicine, scientists suggest that plants and plant viruses can be genetically engineered to produce vaccines against diseases such as dental caries; and life-threatening infections like diarrhea, AIDS, etc (Lal et al., 2007)
1) There are various conditions that can cause severe immunosuppression including congenital immunodeficiencies, HIV infection, malnutrition, cancers, and immunosuppressive medications.
2) Live virus vaccines are contraindicated for severely immunocompromised individuals while killed/inactivated vaccines are generally safe but may require higher doses or boosters.
3) Immunocompromised patients can be divided into three groups - those severely immunocompromised not due to HIV, those with HIV infection, and those with limited immune deficits who may need special vaccines or doses.
This document provides an overview of advancements in vaccinology. It discusses the concept and types of vaccines including live attenuated, inactivated, toxoid, subunit, conjugate, DNA, and recombinant vaccines. It describes the process of designing vaccines including determining antigens, conducting pre-clinical and clinical trials. New approaches like reverse vaccinology and edible vaccines are also summarized. Reverse vaccinology uses genomic sequencing to predict vaccine candidates while edible vaccines aim to induce mucosal immunity by expressing antigens in edible plants. The document outlines the development of several vaccines including the first successful meningococcal B vaccine which was developed using reverse vaccinology.
This document discusses immunity and defines the two main types as innate (native) immunity and adaptive (acquired) immunity. It provides details on:
- Innate immunity is non-specific and includes barriers like skin and mucous membranes, antimicrobial substances, phagocytes, inflammation and fever responses. It is not affected by prior exposure and is genetically determined.
- Adaptive immunity is antigen-specific, develops diversity and memory, allows self/non-self discrimination. It includes active immunity from natural infection or vaccination and passive immunity from maternal antibodies.
- Active immunity is long-lasting and provides both cellular and humoral responses after a latent period. Passive immunity is short-term and provides immediate but
1) Vaccines are biological preparations that help improve immunity against specific diseases. They contain weakened or killed forms of pathogens that stimulate immune system memory without causing illness.
2) Edward Jenner developed the first vaccine in 1796 using cowpox to provide immunity to smallpox. There are several types of vaccines including live attenuated, inactivated, subunit, toxoid, and recombinant vector vaccines.
3) Vaccines work by exposing the immune system to antigens from pathogens. This triggers production of antibodies and memory cells that can fight the pathogen if exposed in the future, providing immunity. While vaccines have many benefits like disease prevention and eradication, some risks also exist.
Vaccines provide immunity to diseases by exposing the immune system to agents that resemble disease-causing pathogens. The first vaccine was developed by Edward Jenner in 1796 to prevent smallpox. Since then, vaccines have been created to protect against many additional diseases. Newer vaccines continue to be developed using technologies like recombinant DNA. Vaccines are necessary public health tools that help prevent disease outbreaks in a cost-effective manner.
Specific prophylaxis and therapy of infectious diseases. Vaccines & toxoidesEneutron
Vaccines provide protection against infectious diseases by exposing individuals to antigens from pathogens in a way that does not cause disease. There are several types of vaccines, including live attenuated vaccines which use weakened live pathogens, and inactivated vaccines which use killed pathogens. Live vaccines typically produce stronger and longer-lasting immunity but carry some risk, while inactivated vaccines are safer but may require booster doses to maintain protection. Both vaccine types aim to stimulate the immune system's memory response to future pathogens, protecting individuals and populations through herd immunity when widely adopted.
Hepatitis b virus in haemodialysis patients. mostafa abdel salam mohamed, muhdarsh 1980
This document discusses vaccination and occult hepatitis in dialysis patients. It provides an overview of vaccination, including how vaccines work and milestones in immunization history. It then discusses challenges to vaccination response in dialysis patients due to immune suppression. Rates of hepatitis B surface antigen positivity vary globally among dialysis populations, from under 1% to over 16%. Occult hepatitis B can occur when hepatitis B virus DNA is present despite surface antigen being undetectable. Liver biopsy is the definitive way to assess liver disease activity before antiviral treatment or transplantation.
Vaccination: how vaccination helps to prevent diseasesLekhan Lodhi
The document discusses vaccination and immunization. It defines vaccination as stimulating protective immune responses through exposure to non-pathogenic forms of microbes. A vaccine produces specific protection against a disease by being antigenic but not pathogenic. Immunization makes a person immune or resistant to an infectious disease typically through vaccine administration. The first empirical proof of protective immunity was provided by Edward Jenner through vaccinating against smallpox using cowpox. Smallpox was possible to eradicate due to unique biological factors and the effectiveness of the smallpox vaccine. The document also discusses vaccine design, mechanisms of protection, types of vaccines including live, inactivated, toxoids, cellular fraction and recombinant vaccines, and routes and schemes of immun
Bacterial vaccines have helped eliminate or reduce several infectious diseases. Common bacterial vaccines protect against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, pneumococcal disease, Hib, meningococcal meningitis, typhoid, cholera and more. Vaccines work through active immunization by vaccination or passive immunization using antibodies. Ongoing research continues to develop new vaccines and improve vaccine effectiveness.
ANAMOLOUS SECONDARY GROWTH IN DICOT ROOTS.pptxRASHMI M G
Abnormal or anomalous secondary growth in plants. It defines secondary growth as an increase in plant girth due to vascular cambium or cork cambium. Anomalous secondary growth does not follow the normal pattern of a single vascular cambium producing xylem internally and phloem externally.
The use of Nauplii and metanauplii artemia in aquaculture (brine shrimp).pptxMAGOTI ERNEST
Although Artemia has been known to man for centuries, its use as a food for the culture of larval organisms apparently began only in the 1930s, when several investigators found that it made an excellent food for newly hatched fish larvae (Litvinenko et al., 2023). As aquaculture developed in the 1960s and ‘70s, the use of Artemia also became more widespread, due both to its convenience and to its nutritional value for larval organisms (Arenas-Pardo et al., 2024). The fact that Artemia dormant cysts can be stored for long periods in cans, and then used as an off-the-shelf food requiring only 24 h of incubation makes them the most convenient, least labor-intensive, live food available for aquaculture (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021). The nutritional value of Artemia, especially for marine organisms, is not constant, but varies both geographically and temporally. During the last decade, however, both the causes of Artemia nutritional variability and methods to improve poorquality Artemia have been identified (Loufi et al., 2024).
Brine shrimp (Artemia spp.) are used in marine aquaculture worldwide. Annually, more than 2,000 metric tons of dry cysts are used for cultivation of fish, crustacean, and shellfish larva. Brine shrimp are important to aquaculture because newly hatched brine shrimp nauplii (larvae) provide a food source for many fish fry (Mozanzadeh et al., 2021). Culture and harvesting of brine shrimp eggs represents another aspect of the aquaculture industry. Nauplii and metanauplii of Artemia, commonly known as brine shrimp, play a crucial role in aquaculture due to their nutritional value and suitability as live feed for many aquatic species, particularly in larval stages (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021).
hematic appreciation test is a psychological assessment tool used to measure an individual's appreciation and understanding of specific themes or topics. This test helps to evaluate an individual's ability to connect different ideas and concepts within a given theme, as well as their overall comprehension and interpretation skills. The results of the test can provide valuable insights into an individual's cognitive abilities, creativity, and critical thinking skills
Unlocking the mysteries of reproduction: Exploring fecundity and gonadosomati...AbdullaAlAsif1
The pygmy halfbeak Dermogenys colletei, is known for its viviparous nature, this presents an intriguing case of relatively low fecundity, raising questions about potential compensatory reproductive strategies employed by this species. Our study delves into the examination of fecundity and the Gonadosomatic Index (GSI) in the Pygmy Halfbeak, D. colletei (Meisner, 2001), an intriguing viviparous fish indigenous to Sarawak, Borneo. We hypothesize that the Pygmy halfbeak, D. colletei, may exhibit unique reproductive adaptations to offset its low fecundity, thus enhancing its survival and fitness. To address this, we conducted a comprehensive study utilizing 28 mature female specimens of D. colletei, carefully measuring fecundity and GSI to shed light on the reproductive adaptations of this species. Our findings reveal that D. colletei indeed exhibits low fecundity, with a mean of 16.76 ± 2.01, and a mean GSI of 12.83 ± 1.27, providing crucial insights into the reproductive mechanisms at play in this species. These results underscore the existence of unique reproductive strategies in D. colletei, enabling its adaptation and persistence in Borneo's diverse aquatic ecosystems, and call for further ecological research to elucidate these mechanisms. This study lends to a better understanding of viviparous fish in Borneo and contributes to the broader field of aquatic ecology, enhancing our knowledge of species adaptations to unique ecological challenges.
When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.
Deep Behavioral Phenotyping in Systems Neuroscience for Functional Atlasing a...Ana Luísa Pinho
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides means to characterize brain activations in response to behavior. However, cognitive neuroscience has been limited to group-level effects referring to the performance of specific tasks. To obtain the functional profile of elementary cognitive mechanisms, the combination of brain responses to many tasks is required. Yet, to date, both structural atlases and parcellation-based activations do not fully account for cognitive function and still present several limitations. Further, they do not adapt overall to individual characteristics. In this talk, I will give an account of deep-behavioral phenotyping strategies, namely data-driven methods in large task-fMRI datasets, to optimize functional brain-data collection and improve inference of effects-of-interest related to mental processes. Key to this approach is the employment of fast multi-functional paradigms rich on features that can be well parametrized and, consequently, facilitate the creation of psycho-physiological constructs to be modelled with imaging data. Particular emphasis will be given to music stimuli when studying high-order cognitive mechanisms, due to their ecological nature and quality to enable complex behavior compounded by discrete entities. I will also discuss how deep-behavioral phenotyping and individualized models applied to neuroimaging data can better account for the subject-specific organization of domain-general cognitive systems in the human brain. Finally, the accumulation of functional brain signatures brings the possibility to clarify relationships among tasks and create a univocal link between brain systems and mental functions through: (1) the development of ontologies proposing an organization of cognitive processes; and (2) brain-network taxonomies describing functional specialization. To this end, tools to improve commensurability in cognitive science are necessary, such as public repositories, ontology-based platforms and automated meta-analysis tools. I will thus discuss some brain-atlasing resources currently under development, and their applicability in cognitive as well as clinical neuroscience.
Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intellige...University of Maribor
Slides from talk:
Aleš Zamuda: Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intelligent Systems.
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Inter-Society Networking Panel GRSS/MTT-S/CIS Panel Session: Promoting Connection and Cooperation
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The ability to recreate computational results with minimal effort and actionable metrics provides a solid foundation for scientific research and software development. When people can replicate an analysis at the touch of a button using open-source software, open data, and methods to assess and compare proposals, it significantly eases verification of results, engagement with a diverse range of contributors, and progress. However, we have yet to fully achieve this; there are still many sociotechnical frictions.
Inspired by David Donoho's vision, this talk aims to revisit the three crucial pillars of frictionless reproducibility (data sharing, code sharing, and competitive challenges) with the perspective of deep software variability.
Our observation is that multiple layers — hardware, operating systems, third-party libraries, software versions, input data, compile-time options, and parameters — are subject to variability that exacerbates frictions but is also essential for achieving robust, generalizable results and fostering innovation. I will first review the literature, providing evidence of how the complex variability interactions across these layers affect qualitative and quantitative software properties, thereby complicating the reproduction and replication of scientific studies in various fields.
I will then present some software engineering and AI techniques that can support the strategic exploration of variability spaces. These include the use of abstractions and models (e.g., feature models), sampling strategies (e.g., uniform, random), cost-effective measurements (e.g., incremental build of software configurations), and dimensionality reduction methods (e.g., transfer learning, feature selection, software debloating).
I will finally argue that deep variability is both the problem and solution of frictionless reproducibility, calling the software science community to develop new methods and tools to manage variability and foster reproducibility in software systems.
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BREEDING METHODS FOR DISEASE RESISTANCE.pptxRASHMI M G
Plant breeding for disease resistance is a strategy to reduce crop losses caused by disease. Plants have an innate immune system that allows them to recognize pathogens and provide resistance. However, breeding for long-lasting resistance often involves combining multiple resistance genes
EWOCS-I: The catalog of X-ray sources in Westerlund 1 from the Extended Weste...Sérgio Sacani
Context. With a mass exceeding several 104 M⊙ and a rich and dense population of massive stars, supermassive young star clusters
represent the most massive star-forming environment that is dominated by the feedback from massive stars and gravitational interactions
among stars.
Aims. In this paper we present the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2 Open Clusters Survey (EWOCS) project, which aims to investigate
the influence of the starburst environment on the formation of stars and planets, and on the evolution of both low and high mass stars.
The primary targets of this project are Westerlund 1 and 2, the closest supermassive star clusters to the Sun.
Methods. The project is based primarily on recent observations conducted with the Chandra and JWST observatories. Specifically,
the Chandra survey of Westerlund 1 consists of 36 new ACIS-I observations, nearly co-pointed, for a total exposure time of 1 Msec.
Additionally, we included 8 archival Chandra/ACIS-S observations. This paper presents the resulting catalog of X-ray sources within
and around Westerlund 1. Sources were detected by combining various existing methods, and photon extraction and source validation
were carried out using the ACIS-Extract software.
Results. The EWOCS X-ray catalog comprises 5963 validated sources out of the 9420 initially provided to ACIS-Extract, reaching a
photon flux threshold of approximately 2 × 10−8 photons cm−2
s
−1
. The X-ray sources exhibit a highly concentrated spatial distribution,
with 1075 sources located within the central 1 arcmin. We have successfully detected X-ray emissions from 126 out of the 166 known
massive stars of the cluster, and we have collected over 71 000 photons from the magnetar CXO J164710.20-455217.
3D Hybrid PIC simulation of the plasma expansion (ISSS-14)
Reecha Vaccine PPT !! (1).ppt
1. Reecha Sharma
(2019BS49M)
M.Sc Zoology (2019-2021)
Department of Zoology and Aquaculture, COBS&H
CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar
email: reecha151@gmail.com
2. At a Glance
• One of the brightest chapters in the history of science is the impact
of vaccines on human longevity and health.
• Vaccines have a history that started late in the 18th century.
• From the late 19th century, vaccines
could be developed in the laboratory.
• However, in the 20th century, it became
possible to develop vaccines based on
immunologic markers.
• In the 21st century, molecular biology
permits vaccine development that was
not possible before.
Plotkin, 2014
3. Introduction : Immune system
The immune system evolved to protect multicellular organisms from
pathogens. Highly adaptable, it defends the body against invaders as
diverse as the tiny intracellular virus that causes polio and as large as
the giant parasitic kidney worm Dioctophyme renale. This diversity of
potential pathogens requires a range of recognition and destruction
mechanisms to match the multitude of invaders. To meet this need,
vertebrates have evolved a complicated and dynamic network of cells,
molecules, and pathways.
Polio virus under microscope The parasitic Kidney Worm
(Book : Kuby Immunology by Punt)
4. Natural immunity against a pathogen derives from the integrated
activation of the innate and adaptive immune systems.
Key characteristics and effectors cells of the innate and adaptive immune response:
Innate Immunity: First line of defense Adaptive Immunity: Second line of defense
• Triggered by damage or threat
(recognition of PAMPs)
• Activated by pathogen encounter
• Rapid response (hours) • Slower response (days or weeks)
• Usually no development of memory • Development of memory
• Pathogen destruction via phagocytosis,
killing and release of bioactive
mediators
• Antibody mediated and T-cell mediated
destruction
• Stereotypical response • Highly specific and adaptable
• Effector cells: Granulocytes , Mast cells,
Macrophages, Monocytes, Natural killer
cells, Dendritic cells
• Effector cells: CD4+ T-cells, CD8+ T-cells,
B-cells, Plasma cells
Cunningham et al , 2016
5. • Innate immunity arises after detection of specific pathogen-
associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) through a variety of pattern
recognition receptors (PRRs) and depending on the type of PAMP,
activate specialized Antigen Presenting Cells (APCs) e.g., dendritic
cells.
• Activation of innate immunity induces expansion of adaptive
immune cells targeted to the particular threat through antigen-
specific T-cell effector and antibody mechanisms. The
immunological memory derived from this antigen-specific response
persists and can react more rapidly upon subsequent infection .
• Immunization is the strategy of stimulating the host’s defense
against a specific pathogen to establish immunological memory and
thus protect against the consequences of infection.
Cunningham et al , 2016
6. Vaccination : Definition
• Vaccination is the administration of the vaccine to help the
immune system develop protection from disease.
• Vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired
immunity to a particular infectious disease.
• A vaccine typically contains
an agent that resembles a
disease-causing microorganism
and is often made from weakened
(attenuated) or killed forms of the
microbe, its toxins, or genetically
engineered etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/
7. The Birth of Vaccinology
• The genesis of vaccinology came through the evolution of attempts to
control smallpox. The observation that persons who had contracted smallpox
rarely developed a second case suggested the concept of immunity to
disease.
• The Chinese are generally credited with the development of variolation more
than a thousand years ago. This method of prevention spread westward into
Europe in the 17th century, although results were mixed and significant
complications often ensued.
• In 1796, Edward Jenner combined the practice of variolation with the
observation that milkmaids who had previously contracted cowpox rarely
contracted smallpox, and he performed the first immunization by inoculating
an 8-year-old boy with fluid from a cowpox pustule and later intentionally
infected the child with smallpox. As predicted, the child did not develop
smallpox. (McCullers, 2007)
• His assertion “that the cow-pox protects the human constitution from the
infection of smallpox” laid the foundation for modern vaccinology.
(Stern and Markel, 2005)
8. Timeline of Vaccine Development
Live Attenuated Killed whole
organisms
Purified proteins
and polysaccharide
Genetically engineered
18th Century
Smallpox(1796)
19th Century
Rabies (1885) Typhoid (1896)
Cholera (1896)
Plaque (1897)
Early 20th Century, 1st half
Tuberculosis (BCG) (1927) Pertussis (1926) Diphtheria (1923)
Yellow fever (1935) Influenza (1936) Tetanus toxoid(1926)
Rickettsia(1938)
Early 20th Century, 2nd half
Polio (Oral) (1963) Polio (injected)
(1995)
Anthrax secreted
protein (1970)
Hepatitis B surface
antigen Recomb.(1986)
9. Live attenuated Killed whole
organism
Purified protein and
Polysaccharide
Genetically
engineered
Measles (1963) Rabies (cell culture)
(1980)
Meningococcus poly-
saccharide (1974)
Lyme OspA (1998)
Mumps(1967) Japanese encephalitis
(1992)
Pneumococcus poly-
saccharide (1977)
Cholera (Recomb.
Toxin B) (1993)
Rubella (1969) Tick born encephalitis
(1981)
Haemophilus influenza
type B polysach.(1985)
Adenovirus(1980) Hepatitis A (1996) H. Influenza type B
Conjugate (1987)
Typhoid (1989) Cholera (1991) Typhoid polysach. (1994)
Varicella (1995) Meningococcal
conjugate (1999)
Acellular pertussis (1996)
Rotavirus (1999) Hepatitis B (1981)
Cholera (1994)
Cold adapted
influenza (1999)
10. Plotkin, 2014
Live attenuated Killed whole
organism
Purified protein and
Polysaccharide
Genetically
engineered
21st Century
Rotavirus (attenuated
and new
reassortment) (2006)
Japanese
encephalitis (2009)
Pneumococcal
conjugates
(heptavalent) (2000)
Human
papillomavirus
recomb. (4 valent)
(2006)
Zoster (2006) Cholera (WC only)
(2009)
Meningococcal conj-
ugates (3 valent) (2005)
Human P. Virus
(bivalent) (2009)
Pneumococcal conj-
ugates (13 valent)
(2010)
Meningococcal group
B proteins (2013)
11. Progress of polio elimination 1988 and 2014
Source : Centers for disease control and prevention (CDC)
13. The goal of all vaccines is
to elicit an immune
response against an
antigen so that when the
individual is again
exposed to the antigen,
a much stronger
secondary immune
response.
14. Properties of an Ideal Vaccine
1) Effectiveness
• The vaccine would be effective against all current and future strains of the pathogen.
• Should give life long immunity.
• Must induce effective herd immunity.
• Must evoke protective levels of immunity rapidly.
2) Safety
• The vaccine should be 100% safe to the recipient.
• An ideal vaccine should not have any potential to disease or lead to any vaccine
associated diseases like allergic response, local inflammation, fever etc.
3) Availability : Readily cultured in bulk or accessible source of subunit and cheap.
4) Stability: Stable under extreme climatic conditions, preferably not requiring
refrigeration.
5) Dose : Only one dose required with easy administration.
6) Compatibility : Delivery of the vaccine simultaneously with other vaccines would
be possible. Many vaccines today are delivered simultaneously with other vaccines.
E.g. DTP and MMR.
15.
16. Herd Immunity
When the vaccination of a portion of the population provides protection
to unprotected individuals is termed herd immunity.
Source : Centers for disease control and prevention (CDC)
17. Development of vaccine
Any new vaccine development requires integration of information concerning :
1. Pathogen life-cycle & epidemiology
2. Immune control & escape
3. Antigen selection & vaccine formulation
4. Vaccine preclinical & clinical testing
18. Pathogen Life-cycle and epidemiology
• Understanding the epidemiology of the disease is crucial to
identifying the target antigens.
• In order to identify antigens suitable for disease prevention, detailed
knowledge required are :
Biology and
Structure of
the pathogen
Interaction
with cellular
receptors
Disease
causing
mechanism
19. • Knowledge of the route of entry and subsequent replication sites of
the pathogen is also essential.
• This is because protection against pathogens entering via the
respiratory (influenza, pneumococcus), gastrointestinal (Salmonella)
or genital tracts (Herpes simplex virus [HSV] or human
immunodeficiency virus [HIV]), or entering the bloodstream by
injury/injection (hepatitis B/C) or mosquito bite (Malaria), may
require different vaccination strategies.
• For example, the immune response after natural malaria infection is
considered to be predominantly directed against the blood stage of the
pathogen but some vaccines have shown that it is possible to induce
effective immunity by targeting the pre-erythrocytic stage, e.g. during
sporozoite stage and the liver stage of the pathogen.
Cunningham et al , 2016
20. Life cycle stages of Plasmodium and vaccine candidates that target each stage.
Duffy and Gorres, 2020
21. Immune control & escape
Sometimes pathogens express a number of virulence determinants that
allow the pathogen to avoid immune defenses, facilitating infectivity
and transmission due to its considerable genetic diversity within its
species or virus type.
Immune evasion strategies :
1) Hiding from the immune system: Viruses such as Varicella
zoster (chickenpox) and Herpes viridae (herpes simplex viruses)
can hide from the immune system in neurons and non-neuronal
cells where they may persist for many years, before emerging in
pathogenic form when the host has a lowered resistance.
2) Interfering with the function of the immune system :
• Pathogen-encoded determinants bind to specific cellular receptors
allowing cell entry without alerting the immune response (viruses
and some bacteria) www.immunology.org
22. • Production of proteins, enzymes and micro-RNAs that inhibit host-
pathogen recognition mechanisms and innate immune effector
responses (influenza A)
• Production of structures such as polysaccharide capsules that inhibit
immune effectors such as complement. (Neisseria meningitidis)
• High rates of mutation that ensure that antibodies stimulated during
earlier infection remain ineffective (influenza, HIV, hepatitis C)
• Expression of toxins that cause tissue destruction and modulate the
immune response (pneumococcus)
Detailed knowledge of immune escape strategies used by individual
pathogens is important for developing effective vaccines against them.
Cunningham et al , 2016
23.
24. Antigen selection & vaccine formulation
• There are many types of vaccines, categorized by the antigen used in
their preparation.
• In principle anything from whole organism to small subcellular
fragment can be used as antigen in vaccine.
Whole organism Vaccine
Live but attenuated vaccines
Inactivated (Killed) vaccine
Purified antigen vaccine or subunit vaccine
DNA vaccine
Recombinant vector vaccine
25. Live Attenuated Vaccine
• An attenuated vaccine contain a group of microbes that had been
weakened and decreased its virulent under laboratory conditions
(unfavorable conditions).
• The microorganisms lose their virulence and do not produce any type
of lesion in the animal, but continue to be able to replicate or multiply
sufficiently in order to be processed by the immune system .
(Saadh et al , 2017)
Plotkin, Vaccine Fact Book , 2013
26. (Book : Kuby Immunology by Punt)
Advantages
• Due to their capacity for transient growth,
these vaccine show prolonged
immunogenicity and eliminate the need for
repeated boosters.
• Infectious microbes can stimulate
generation of memory as well as humoral
immune response.
Disadvantages
• Major disadvantage of these vaccine is the
associated risk of reverting back to
virulent form.
• Since they are alive and their activity
depends on their viability, proper storage
is critical.
28. Example:
• Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is a vaccine against tuberculosis,
developed in 1921 by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin, caused
by attenuation of the Mycobacterium bovis strain on a medium
containing increasing concentration of bile.
• The sabin polio vaccine is an example of attenuated vaccine,
consisting of three attenuated strain of poliovirus.
• Mumps vaccine consists of live attenuated strains of Paramyxvirus
parotitidis. In many world regions, it is used to routinely vaccinate
children, often a part f a combined measles, mumps and rubella
(MMR).
• Rabies vaccine, Yellow Fever vaccine, Vibrio cholera vaccine , Rota
virus vaccine.
29. Inactivated (killed) Vaccine
Inactivated vaccines or killed vaccines is a vaccine consist of virus,
bacterial or other pathogens that have been grown in a specialized
culture and then completely killed by heat, radiation or chemicals so it
is no longer capable of replication in the host and to be effective must
contain much more antigen than live vaccines.
(Saadh et al , 2017)
Plotkin, Vaccine Fact Book , 2013
30. • Inactivated process is critically important to maintain the structure of
epitopes on surface antigens during inactivation.
• Excessive heat inactivation cause denaturation of protein, therefore
the epitope depend on structure of protein are altered or damaged.
• So the most successful methods to kill the pathogen depend on
chemicals such as Formaldehyde, phenol, and binary ethylenimine
(BEI).
• Excessive treatment can destroy immunogenicity whereas insufficient
treatment can leave infectious virus capable of causing disease
Example:
The Salk inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) is produced by formaldehyde
treatment of the poliovirus.
Hepatitis A
31. Subunit Vaccine (Purified Antigen Vaccine)
• A vaccine composed of a purified Antigenic determinant that is
separated from the virulent organism is called subunit vaccine.
• It consists of only those antigens that elicit protective immunity.
Subunit
Vaccine
Inactivated
exotoxin
Capsular
polysaccharide
Recombinant
antigen
World Health Organization (WHO)
32. Toxoid (Inactivated Exotoxin)
• Toxoid vaccines are made by purifying the bacterial exotoxin.
• Toxicity of purified exotoxins is suppressed or inactivated either by
heat or with formaldehyde (while maintaining immunogenicity) to
form toxoids. Vaccination with toxoids induces anti-toxoid
antibodies that are able to bind with the toxin and neutralize its
deleterious effects. (Yadav et al, 2014).
• Example : DPT
Vaccine Research Catalog, 2016
33. Capsulated Polysaccharide Vaccine
• Bacteria can synthesize hundreds of chemically and
immunologically different polysaccharides.
• Vaccines composed of purified polysaccharides against
meningococcus and pneumococcus were developed .
• Unfortunately, those vaccines, while partially immunogenic in
adults, were completely unable to induce an antibody response in
infants and children, the population for whom the vaccines were
mostly needed.
• Later the problem was solved and reported that the bacterial CPSs
become very immunogenic when covalently linked to a carrier
protein and thus started working on a conjugate vaccine which
worked beautifully in infants and children.
(Rappuoli et al , 2019)
35. Conjugate Vaccine
• A conjugate vaccine is created by covalently attaching a poor antigen
(polysaccharide) to a strong antigen (protein/ toxoid) thereby eliciting
a stronger immunological response to the poor antigen.
• Example:
Haemophilus influenza type B (Hib) Vaccine
Pneumococcal
Vaccine
Meningococcal
Vaccine
36. Recombinant Subunit Vaccine
• The use of recombinant DNA technology has made the
development of subunit vaccine more efficient.
• Recombinant subunit vaccines can be delivered as purified
recombinant proteins, as proteins delivered using live non-
pathogenic vectors (bacterial or viral) or as nucleic acid molecules
encoding the antigen, thereby making the production safer and
generally more efficient.
• The first Recombinant subunit vaccine approved for human use is
the Hepatitis B vaccine.
(Andersson, 2000)
37.
38. DNA Vaccine
• The DNA vaccines are simple rings of DNA containing a gene
encoding an antigen, and a promoter/terminator to make the gene
express in mammalian cells.
• They are a promising new approach for generating all types of
desired immunity: cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), T helper cells
and antibodies.
Liu, 2003
41. Advantages of DNA Vaccines
The main advantage of DNA vaccines is their ability to
stimulate both the humoral and cellular arms of the
adaptive immune system.
Versatility: In addition to the prevention of
infectious diseases, DNA vaccines may also be used
to treat malignancies and autoimmune or genetic
disorders.
Due to the ability to genetically modify the antigen
encoded by DNA vaccines, the vaccine provides a
means to generate broadly neutralizing antibodies
against pathogens such as HIV and the influenza
virus.
Flingai et al , 2013
42. Recombinant Vector Vaccine
• In this, genes that encode antigens isolated from a pathogen can be
inserted into non-virulent viruses or bacteria.
• Such recombinant micro-organisms serve as vectors, replicating
within the host and expressing the gene product of the pathogen-
encoded antigenic proteins.
• A no. of organisms have been used for vector vaccines, including
vaccinia virus, the canary pox virus, attenuated polio virus,
adenovirus and others. (Book : Kuby Immunology by Punt)
43.
44. Formulation of Vaccine
Vaccines include a variety of ingredients including antigens, stabilizers,
adjuvants, antibiotics, surfactants, diluent, residual and preservatives.
45. Antigen
All vaccines contain an active component (the antigen) which
generates an immune response, or the blueprint for making the active
component.
Stabilizers
Stabilizers are used to help the vaccine maintain its effectiveness
during the storage.
Instability can cause loss of antigenicity and decreased infectivity of
LAV.
Factors affecting stability are temperature and acidity or alkalinity of
the vaccine (pH).
Stabilizing agents include MgCl2 (for OPV), MgSO4 (for measles),
lactose-sorbitol and sorbitol-gelatine.
46. Adjuvants
Added to vaccines to stimulate the production of
antibodies against the vaccine to make it more
effective.
Chemically, adjuvants are a highly heterogeneous group of
compounds with only one thing in common: their ability to
enhance the immune response.
Example : Aluminium salt (like aluminium phosphate,
aluminium hydroxide or potassium aluminium sulphate),
CpG ( Two nucleic acids, Cytosine(C) and Guanine (G)
found in the DNA) are linked to form an adjuvant that is
contained in a hepatitis B vaccine.
49. Antibiotics
Antibiotics (in trace amounts) are used during the manufacturing
phase to prevent bacterial contamination of the tissue culture cells in
which the viruses are grown.
Usually only trace amounts appear in vaccines, for example, MMR
vaccine and IPV each contain less than 25 micrograms of neomycin
per dose (less than 0.000025 g).
Example: Neomycin, streptomycin, polymyxin B, chlortetracyline
and amphotericin B.
WHO
50. Preservatives
Preservatives are added to multidose vaccines to prevent bacterial
and fungal growth. They include a variety of substances.
Example:
Thiomersal (ethyl mercury-containing compound)
Formaldehyde(Used to inactivate viruses (e.g. IPV) and to detoxify
bacterial toxins, such as the toxins used to make diphtheria and
tetanus vaccines).
Phenol derivatives.
Surfactants
Surfactants keep all the ingredients in the vaccine blended together.
They prevent settling and clumping of elements that are in the liquid
form of the vaccine.
51. Residuals
Residuals are tiny amounts of various substances used during
manufacturing or production of vaccines that are not active
ingredients in the completed vaccine.
Substances will vary depending on the manufacturing process used
and may include egg proteins, yeast or antibiotics. Residual traces of
these substances which may be present in a vaccine are in such small
quantities that they need to be measured as parts per million or parts
per billion.
Diluent
A diluent is a liquid used to dilute a vaccine to the correct
concentration immediately prior to use. The most commonly used
diluent is sterile water.
WHO
56. Regulatory Review and Approval
This step can only come after detailed applications and rigorous
demonstration of Good Manufacturing Practices.
Regulatory review and approval processes then allow the
manufacturer to receive FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
licensing.
The process includes :
An Investigational New Drug application,
Pre-licensure vaccine clinical trials,
A BLA (Biologics License Application),
Inspection of the manufacturing facility,
Presentation of findings and usability testing of product labeling.
57. Manufacturing
During this part of the process, vaccines are made.The production
takes between six and 36 months. Several hundreds of quality tests
will take place during that span.
58.
59. Quality Control
Using information from the public and healthcare providers, quality
control continues through different agencies/methods long after a
vaccine is licensed, manufactured and distributed.
As soon as public vaccine use starts, vaccine performance is
constantly checked. Multiple systems and organizations monitor and
test the vaccine.
Centers for disease control and prevention (CDC)
61. How do vaccine work against Covid19 ?
Scientist and researchers worldwide race to develop a vaccine in the fight against
global pandemic (COVID-19) where main focus is to the so-called spike protein,
which is present in the COVID virus.
The spike protein interacts with ACE2
proteins on human cells, facilitating
infection of the cells, encouraging the
virus to replicate and cause disease.
Several vaccines in development are
aimed at exposing the body to spike
protein and having the immune system
recognize it as an antigen, or foreign.
The immune system then develops a
response with specialized white blood cells that are aimed at either destroying the
virus or producing antibodies that will block infection by the virus when exposed to the
real pathogen.
67. Phase 3 Covid Vaccine
Sputnik V
mRNA-1273
Ad5
Covaxin
68. Conclusion
• Vaccination as a means of preventing infectious disease has had
arguably the greatest impact on human health of any medical
intervention.
• Vaccine development is a complex multidisciplinary activity,
combining understanding of host-pathogen interactions at the
molecular level, with clinical science, population-level
epidemiology and the biomechanical requirements of production
• Increased understanding of the molecular nature of immune
responses and advances in the technologies of gene sequencing
and molecular biology have resulted in new approaches to vaccine
development.
• The ultimate goal is an affordable vaccine that generates strong
and lasting immunity with the fewest possible side effects,
implemented without the need for expensive cold chains.
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