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Particle Agglutination Method for Poliovirus Identification
Published on: April 20, 2011
Use of orally administered live attenuated polioviruses as a vaccine in a community setting; a controlled study
Journal of the American Medical Association
|June 20, 1959
Abstract
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Vaccines
Vaccines are among the most effective tools in preventive medicine, designed to prepare the immune system to recognize and combat infectious agents. By introducing antigens—substances that the immune system identifies as foreign—vaccines stimulate an adaptive immune response that leads to immunological memory. This immunological memory enables the body to mount a faster and more effective response upon future exposures to the actual pathogen.Vaccines can be categorized based on the type of...

