ANBI 470.3 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Protein, Pathogen, Bacteria
20 Nov 2018
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Biotechnology and animal health: vaccines vaccinology is all about the immunological memory. 1st exposure: development of antibodies in blood are low longer process to find and bind cells. Drying something can make it stay good on the shelve for long period of time so avoids cold storage. But still have to reconstitution of the dry stuff with clean sterile water if use contaminated water this can cause loss of stability of vaccines. Subunit vaccine contains 1 or at most a few components of the infectious agent usually recombinantly produced advantages: safe because purifying a protein disadvantages, must identify subunit eliciting protective immunity. Have to identify which protein to make that is protected an if you make antibodies against just one protein will it be protected? sometimes if inject with the whole organism then you are protected against tons of proteins.
