vaccine prophylaxis

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• Prophylaxis — (Greek προφυλάσσω to guard or prevent beforehand ) is any medical or public health procedure whose purpose is to prevent, rather than treat or cure a disease. Roughly, prophylactic measures are divided between primary prophylaxis (to prevent the… …   Wikipedia

• vaccine — Originally, the live v. (vaccinia, cowpox) virus inoculated in the skin as prophylaxis against smallpox and obtained from the skin of calves inoculated with seed virus. Usage has extended the meaning to include essentially any preparation… …   Medical dictionary

• Malaria prophylaxis — is a preventative treatment of malaria. Most adults from endemic areas have a degree of long term infection, which tends to recur, and also possess partial immunity (resistance); the resistance reduces with time, and such adults may become… …   Wikipedia

• List of vaccine topics — Flu vaccine This is a list of vaccine related topics. A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease causing microorganism, and is often made… …   Wikipedia

• Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine — Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine Vaccine description Target disease Streptococcus pneumoniae Type Conjugate vaccine Clinical data AHFS/Drugs.com …   Wikipedia

• DPT vaccine — For other uses, see DTP (disambiguation). DPT vaccine Combination of Diphtheria vaccine Vaccine Pertussis vaccine Vaccine Tetanus vaccine Vaccine Clinical data Pregnancy cat.  ? …   Wikipedia

• Post-exposure prophylaxis — (PEP) is any prophylactic treatment started immediately after exposure to a pathogen (such as a disease causing virus), in order to prevent infection by the pathogen and the development of disease.RabiesPEP is commonly and very effectively used… …   Wikipedia

• rabies vaccine — any of several inactivated viral vaccines against rabies; used for preexposure immunization to persons at high risk of exposure, such as veterinarians, and for postexposure prophylaxis in conjunction with rabies immune globulin. The currently… …   Medical dictionary

• hepatitis A vaccine inactivated — an inactivated whole virus vaccine derived from an attenuated strain of hepatitis A virus grown in cell culture; administered intramuscularly as an immunizing agent for preexposure prophylaxis in susceptible persons at least two years of age …   Medical dictionary

• human diploid cell vaccine — (HDCV) an inactivated viral vaccine prepared from rabies virus grown in cultures of human diploid embryo lung cells and inactivated with propiolactone; administered intramuscularly or intradermally for pre and postexposure prophylaxis against… …   Medical dictionary

• purified chick embryo cell vaccine — (PCECV) an inactivated viral vaccine prepared from rabies virus grown in primary cultures of chicken fibroblasts and inactivated with propiolactone; used for pre and post exposure rabies prophylaxis, administered intramuscularly …   Medical dictionary