Vaccine
Design - 3
Synthetic Antigen Vaccines:
eSynthesized
peptides that resemble antigenic determinants (epitopes) of a particular infectious agent
eThis type of
vaccine made possible with developments in:
Židentification
of bacterial antigenic structure
Žrecombinant
DNA technology
Židentification
of specific epitopes
eApplications
of this type of vaccine include:
ŽHepatitis B
vaccines
ŽHerpes
simplex vaccines
