typhus vaccine

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n.

A vaccine containing a suspension of inactivated Rickettsia prowazekii that has been grown in embryonate eggs, used to immunize against epidemic typhus.

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Example sentences from the Web for typhus vaccine

The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.
The Race for the Ebola Vaccine|Abby Haglage|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The need for an Ebola vaccine in West Africa has never been greater.
The Race for the Ebola Vaccine|Abby Haglage|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
With Ebola still raging in West Africa, the race to find a vaccine is heating up.
The Race for the Ebola Vaccine|Abby Haglage|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
On average, the vaccine has an efficacy of about 60 percent.
When You Get the Flu This Winter, You Can Blame Anti-Vaxxers|Kent Sepkowitz|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST

With enough changing of the influenza RNA over time, the vaccine no longer provokes the “right” immune response.
When You Get the Flu This Winter, You Can Blame Anti-Vaxxers|Kent Sepkowitz|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
British house of commons voted Dr. Jenner 10,000 for his discovery of the vaccine inoculation.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
For only typhus and one or two other maladies are the precautions so elaborate as those needed in smallpox.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
The specific cause of typhus is unknown, but the contagion develops and reproduces itself in the body of the patient.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
The name typhus is from , a smoke or fog, and it indicates the befogged, stuporous condition of the patient.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
We have two kinds of vaccines already, the cow-pox vaccine and the killed cultures of bacteria introduced by Wright.
The Treatment of Hay Fever|George Frederick Laidlaw

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