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COVID-19 portal. v. t. e. ZyCoV-D is a DNA plasmid -based COVID-19 vaccine developed by Indian pharmaceutical company Cadila Healthcare, with support from the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council. It is approved for emergency use in India.
COVID-19 is a contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was identified in Wuhan, Mainland China in December 2019 [4] and was confirmed to have spread to Indonesia on 2 March 2020. [5] COVID-19 vaccination in Indonesia will cover more than 75% of overall Indonesian population ...
Vaccination in Brazil includes all the practice and social issues related to vaccines in Brazil . The National Program for Immunization ( Programa Nacional de Imunizações, or PNI) of the Unified Health System is the national government agency overseeing vaccination in Brazil. [1] [2] Historically coverage has been high, reaching a national ...
Edward Jenner FRS FRCPE [1] (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. [2] [3] The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae ('pustules of the cow'), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox.
Twinrix is a brand manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals. The full generic name is hepatitis A inactivated & hepatitis B (recombinant) vaccine. [13] Twinrix is administered over three doses. The name was created because it is a mixture of two earlier vaccines — Havrix, an inactivated-virus Hepatitis A vaccine, and Engerix-B, a ...
A cholera vaccine is a vaccine that is effective at reducing the risk of contracting cholera. [10] The recommended cholera vaccines are administered orally to elicit local immune response in the gut where the intestinal cells produce antibodies against the cholera microbe. This immune response was poorly achieved with the injectable vaccines ...
BCG vaccine. Bacillus Calmette–Guérin ( BCG) vaccine is a vaccine primarily used against tuberculosis (TB). [8] It is named after its inventors Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin. [9] [10] In countries where tuberculosis or leprosy is common, one dose is recommended in healthy babies as soon after birth as possible. [8]
Corbevax is a protein subunit COVID-19 vaccine developed by Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and Dynavax technologies based in Emeryville, California.