Peptide vaccine

A peptide vaccine is any peptide which serves to immunize an organism against a pathogen. Peptide vaccine are often synthetic and mimic naturally occurring proteins from pathogens.^[1]

References

↑ "Synthetic peptide vaccines". World Health Organization. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

Artificial induction of immunity / Immunization: Vaccines, Vaccination, Infection, Inoculation (J07)

Development

Classes

Administration

Global:
USA:

Vaccines

Bacterial	Anthrax Brucellosis Cholera^# Diphtheria^# Hib^# Leptospirosis Lyme disease^‡ Meningococcus^# MeNZB NmVac4-A/C/Y/W-135 Pertussis^# Plague Pneumococcal^# PCV PPSV Q fever Tetanus^# Tuberculosis BCG^# Typhoid^# Ty21a ViCPS Typhus combination: DTwP/DTaP

Viral	Adenovirus Flu^# H1N1 (Pandemrix) LAIV Hantavirus Hepatitis A^# Hepatitis B^# Hepatitis E HPV Cervarix Gardasil Japanese encephalitis^# Measles^# Mumps^# Mumpsvax Polio^# Sabin Salk Rabies^# Rotavirus^# Rubella^# Smallpox Dryvax Tick-borne encephalitis Varicella zoster chicken pox^# shingles (live) Yellow fever^# combination: MMR MMRV research: Chikungunya Cytomegalovirus Dengue Ebola Epstein–Barr virus Hepatitis C HIV

Protozoan	research: Malaria Trypanosomiasis

Helminthiasis	research: Hookworm Schistosomiasis

Other	Cancer vaccines ALVAC-CEA Hepatitis B^# HPV Cervarix Gardasil NicVAX TA-CD TA-NIC

Controversy

^#WHO-EM
^‡Withdrawn from market
Clinical trials:
- ^†Phase III
- ^§Never to phase III

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