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Vaccines, Attenuated MeSH Descriptor Data 2025


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
Previous Indexing
specific vaccine (1966-1972)
Vaccines (1966-1972)
Public MeSH Note
74
History Note
74(73)
Date Established
1974/01/01
Date of Entry
1999/01/01
Revision Date
2020/05/27
Vaccines, Attenuated Preferred
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