Conjugate vaccines are non-cellular, recombinant vaccines consisting of several linked components: In a conjugate vaccine, the antigenic part of the pathogen (the part that induces antibody formation) is bound to a protein. The protein serves as a kind of vehicle that triggers an enhanced immune response.
Conjugate vaccine
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