Synthetic vaccine

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A synthetic vaccine is a vaccine consisting mainly of synthetic peptides, carbohydrates, or antigens. The world's first synthetic vaccine was created from diphtheria toxin, by Louis Chedid from the Pasteur Institute and at Michael Sela from the Weizmann Institute.

Synthetic vaccines are usually considered to be safer than vaccines from bacterial cultures.

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Article on synthetic Hib vaccine

CRISP Thesaurus entry on Synthetic Vaccines

Abstract for paper on a synthetic vaccine

Web Health Centre: History of Vaccines

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