• An attenuated vaccine (or a live attenuated vaccine, LAV) is a vaccine created by reducing the virulence of a pathogen, but still keeping it viable (or...
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    influenza. It is an attenuated live vaccine, unlike other influenza vaccines, which are inactivated vaccines. Live attenuated influenza vaccine is administered...
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  • Vaccine shedding is a form of viral shedding which can occasionally occur following a viral infection caused by an attenuated (or "live virus") vaccine...
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    contrast, live vaccines use pathogens that are still alive (but are almost always attenuated, that is, weakened). Pathogens for inactivated vaccines are grown...
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    (Merck), in use since 2006, is an attenuated vaccine which consists of a larger-than-normal dose of chickenpox vaccine. Unlike Shingrix, Zostavax is not...
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    demonstration of a polio vaccine was by Hilary Koprowski in 1950, with a live attenuated virus which people drank. The vaccine was not approved for use...
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    received the live Enders-attenuated Edmonston B strain plus gamma globulin, 130 children received a "further attenuated" vaccine without gamma globulin...
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  • infected. There are other vaccine candidates in development including live attenuated, inactivated, DNA and subunit vaccines. In December 2018, Dengvaxia...
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    are rare. The rubella vaccine is a live attenuated vaccine. It is available either by itself or in combination with other vaccines. Combinations include...
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    the doses were obtained by attenuation, but later ones were progressively more virulent. The Pasteur-Roux vaccine attenuated the harvested virus samples...
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