Vaccine and Immunology

Types of Vaccine

There are different types of vaccines. Each particular type is designed to teach our immune system how to fight with certain kinds of germs and the serious disease they cause. Vaccines are created based on certain considerations like

• How our immune systems respond to germs?
• Who need to get vaccinated against the germs?
• What should be the best or suitable technology to create vaccines?

Based on number of such factors, scientists decide which type vaccine they will create. There several different vaccines which include;

1. Inactivated vaccines
2. Live attenuated vaccines
3. Sub-unit, recombinant, polysaccharides and conjugate vaccines
4. Toxoid vaccines
5. Viral vector vaccines