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• Old Technology:– Grow in animals (vaccinia
in calves for smallpox; rabbit brains for rabies)
– Simple bacterial culture (Cholera vibrio) then inactivation
– Grow in eggs (influenza, vaccinia) then inactivate
>100 million eggs used for influenza in the USA every year
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• Newer Technology:– Mammalian cell culture: live and killed
vaccines– Subunit vaccines:
• From serum (HBV) or virus / bacterial disruption• Made via recombinant DNA technology
– Recombinant vaccine vectors– DNA vaccines