The term “vaccine pipeline” identifies vaccines currently in research and under development. In addition, the vaccine pipeline is divided into temporal, sequential phases of developing, testing and pr [..]

A conjugate vaccine contains an antigen (the immunity producing molecule) bound to a carrier protein (which will allow the antigen access to areas of a cell where the carrier protein may go). These va [..]

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The Accelerated Development and Introduction Plans (ADIPs) address the significant technical, epidemiological and financial challenges involved in making new vaccines available that are to be used pri [..]

Adjuvants are agents commonly added to a vaccine formulation which do not stimulate an immunologic response alone but can help to increase the immune response to other components of a vaccine or stimu [..]

The small, branched air-containing pockets of the lungs where oxygen inhaled during respiration passes through a thin membrane and into the blood stream. Carbon dioxide passes across these thin membra [..]

An agent – either chemically synthesized or isolated from fungi or other organisms – that kills outright, or is detrimental to, the growth of bacteria.

A protein found in the blood that is produced by specialized cells of the immune system (B cells) in response to foreign substances (e.g. bacteria or viruses) invading the body. Antibodies protect the [..]

Any substance foreign to the body that evokes an immune response either alone or after forming a complex with a larger protein. Antigens are active components of a vaccine that stimulate the body to p [..]

Antimicrobial resistance can develop in any type of microbe (germ). Microbes can develop resistance to specific medicines. Antibiotic resistance occurs when a bacterium or other microbe has mutated in [..]