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Viral Vaccines

Whole virus vaccines. either live or killed, constitute the vast majority of vaccines in use at present. However, recent advances in molecular biology had provided alternative methods for producing vaccines. Listed below are the possibilities;-  

1. Live whole virus vaccines
2. Killed whole virus vaccines
3. Subunit vaccines;- purified or recombinant viral antigen
4. Recombinant virus vaccines
5. Anti-idiotype antibodies
6. DNA vaccines

Contents reproduced with permission from Wong's Virology