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MeSH Heading: Vaccines, Attenuated
Tree Number(s): D20.215.894.811
Unique ID: D014613
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014613
Annotation: live vaccine; coord NIM with specific vaccine (IM)
Scope Note: Live vaccines prepared from microorganisms which have undergone physical adaptation (e.g., by radiation or temperature conditioning) or serial passage in laboratory animal hosts or infected tissue/cell cultures, in order to produce avirulent mutant strains capable of inducing protective immunity.
Entry Term(s): Attenuated Vaccine; Vaccines, Live, Attenuated
Registry Numbers: 0
Previous Indexing: specific vaccine (1966-1972); Vaccines (1966-1972)
Public MeSH Note: 74
History Note: 74(73)
Date Introduced: 1974/01/01
Last Updated: 2020/05/27

Allowable Qualifiers: administration & dosage (AD)

adverse effects (AE)

agonists (AG)

analysis (AN)

antagonists & inhibitors (AI)

biosynthesis (BI)

blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemical synthesis (CS)

chemistry (CH)

classification (CL)

economics (EC)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

isolation & purification (IP)

metabolism (ME)

pharmacokinetics (PK)

pharmacology (PD)

poisoning (PO)

radiation effects (RE)

standards (ST)

supply & distribution (SD)

therapeutic use (TU)

toxicity (TO)

urine (UR)

Vaccines, Attenuated MeSH Descriptor Data 2026