C17L8 Antibiotics and Vaccines

Life expectancy

The average period that a person is expected to live.

Antibiotics

substance with antimicrobial properties that can be tolerated by humans but directly kills or inhibits the growth of bacteria.

antibiotic

substance with antimicrobial properties that can be tolerated by humans

Vaccines

Non-disease causing variants of pathogens used to produce immunity against infectious diseases.

Germ theory of disease

The theory stating that infectious diseases are caused by microscopic organisms, that must be transferred from one hostz to another in order to spread

Louis Pasteur

A scientist who helped establish the germ theory of disease in the 1860s.

Edward Jenner

The scientist who performed the first successful vaccination in 1796.

Booster shot

An additional dose of a vaccine given after the initial dose to strengthen the immune response.

Inactivated vaccine

A vaccine that uses killed or inactivated pathogens to stimulate an immune response.

Live vaccine

A vaccine that uses a weakened form of the live pathogen.

Toxoid vaccine

A vaccine that contains an inactivated toxin produced by a bacterium.

Recombinant subunit vaccine

A vaccine that uses recombinant DNA technology to produce antigens that elicit an immune response.

mRNA vaccine

A type of vaccine that contains messenger RNA to instruct cells to produce a protein that triggers an immune response.

Penicillin

The first discovered antibiotic, effective against many bacterial infections.

Smallpox

A deadly infectious disease that was completely eradicated through vaccination efforts.

Pertussis vaccine

An inactivated vaccine that protects against whooping cough.