Types of Vaccines

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What type of vaccine uses a weakened form of the pathogen that still replicates but doesn't cause disease?
Live-attenuated
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What type of vaccine uses pathogens that are killed by heat/chemicals but still trigger immunity?
Inactivated
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What type of vaccine uses an inactivated toxin produced by the pathogen to trigger immunity?
Toxoid
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What type of vaccine contains only specific pieces (proteins or sugars) of the pathogen?
Subunit
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What type of vaccine uses a harmless virus to deliver genetic material from the target pathogen?
Viral vector
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What type of vaccine gives the body genetic instructions to make a pathogen protein?
mRNA
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What type of vaccine gives the body DNA instructions in a plasmid to make a pathogen protein?
DNA