Vet Tech Skills Lecture Final

Vaccine

1. A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen (bacteria/virus) or a portion of a pathogen’s structure that stimulates antibody production against the pathogen but is incapable of causing severe infection  

Antigen

substance that stimulates the immune system and causes antibody production 

Antibody

a “protection protein” produced by the body in response to a disease causing organism or vaccine 

Adjuvant 

an immunological agent that enhances the immune response to a vaccine 

Types of Vaccines

• Killed/Inactive

• Modified- Live (MLV) Attenuated 

• Recombinant 

• Toxoid