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Biologics and Vaccines Overview

The document discusses different types of vaccines including viral, bacterial, and rickettsial vaccines. It describes how vaccines are produced using living attenuated or killed pathogens and the biological nature of antigens and antibodies. Specific vaccines are explained in detail, including how they are prepared and administered. Types of immunity, both natural and acquired, are also introduced.

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Biologics and Vaccines Overview

The document discusses different types of vaccines including viral, bacterial, and rickettsial vaccines. It describes how vaccines are produced using living attenuated or killed pathogens and the biological nature of antigens and antibodies. Specific vaccines are explained in detail, including how they are prepared and administered. Types of immunity, both natural and acquired, are also introduced.

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5/13/2020

Pharmacognosy IB (Basic)
DR. ADEEL MASOOD BUTT, PHARM-D, PHD
INSTITUTE OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES, LAHORE, PAKISTAN

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Biologics

 What are biologics?


 Antigens
 Physical properties of antigens
 What is the chemical nature of antigens?
 What are their biological actions?
 Antibodies
 Types (IgA, IgE, IgM, IgG, IgD)

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What is immunity?

 Types of immunity
 Natural
 Acquired
 Active
 Passive

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What are vaccines?

 A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide


immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative
agent of a disease.
 Vaccines usually contain living, attenuated or killed viruses, killed
rickettsiae.
 Remember! Vaccines do not guarantee complete protection from a
disease

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Vaccines

 Living vs non-living vaccines (which one is preferred and why?)


 Viral vaccines
 contain either inactivated viruses, or attenuated (not capable of causing
disease) viruses.
 Difficulties in manufacture included viral culture.

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Small pox vaccine

 Is the living virus of vaccinia (cowpox)


 1796 – Edward Jenner should ring some bells!
 How is it prepared?
 Belly of a calf is shaved and washed
 Cuts are made in the epidermis
 Seed virus inoculated by hand rubbing
 Vesicles develop, which are removed and a suspension of these is prepared
 Use: prophylactic (mostly for individuals working on the disease)

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Rabies Vaccine

 Human diploid cell rabies vaccine (HDCV)


 Whole virion or subvirion rabies vaccine
 Obtained by culturing the rabies virus in human diploid embryo lung
tissues or in human diploid cell cultures
 Uses: preventive
 Dosing schedule
 Dose 1 – Day 0
 Dose 2 – 7 days after dose 1
 Dose 3 – 21 days or 28 days after dose 1

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DR. ADEEL MASOOD BUTT, PhD

 What role did Louis Pasteur played in development of rabies vaccine?


 Attenuated virulence of virus
 Rabies vaccine is among the very few that can be used even after the
infection occurs because?

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Influenza Vaccine

 Commonly known as the “flu shots” or flu vaccine


 Contains influenza viruses (type A and/or B) which have been inactivated
by UV radiation
 Given intramuscularly
 Requires continuous reevaluation

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Poliomyelitis vaccine

 Polio virus vaccine inactivated (IPV) also known as Salk vaccine


 Different types of polio viruses (1, 2, or 3) are grown in Rhesus Monkey
kidney tissues
 Virus is harvested and killed with formaldehyde
 All 3 types of viruses are pooled together to prepare trivalent vaccine
 Dose: The usual dose, given subcutaneously, is 3 injections of 1 ml, 4 or
more weeks apart, and a fourth reinforcing dose of 1 ml, 6 to 12 months
later.

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 Poliovirus vaccine live oral: has longer lasting immunity that IPV
 Lower cost of production than Salk’s polio vaccine
 For oral live polio vaccine production, viruses are not killed by
formaldehyde
 Oral vaccine contains attenuated viruses (and therefore, should never be
administered parentally)
 The usual administration schedule involves an initial administration of 2 doses at
not less than 8-week intervals. A third, reinforcing dose is administered 8 to 12
months later.

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Hepatitis vaccine

 Contains chemically inactivated hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)


 Specific antibody (anti-HBs) develops in 75 to 90% of healthy adults after
the first 2 doses of vaccine and in 85 to 90% after the third dose.
 Those at high risk of HBV infection should get vaccinated

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Rickettsial vaccines

 Methods of preparation are similar to those for viruses


 Not available commercially

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Bacterial Vaccines

 Suspensions of attenuated/ killed pathogenic bacteria


 Typhoid vaccine: killed typhoid bacilli (Salmonella typhi)
 Recommended for persons who have had household contact with a known ,
typhoid carrier or for travelers going to areas of the world where typhoid fever is
endemic.
 Cholera vaccine: is a sterile suspension of killed cholera vibrios (Vibrio
cholerae)
 The usual adult dose, given subcutaneously or intramuscularly, is 0.5 ml, and
then 0.5 ml 1 to 4 weeks later; and a 0.5-ml dose repeated every 6 months, if
necessary.

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Bacterial vaccines

 BCG Vaccine: living culture of the bacillus Calmette-Guérin strain of


Mycobacterium tuberculosis
 It should be used only with individuals who have a negative tuberculin skin test
 administered intradermally
 Haemophilus Vaccine: composed of the purified, capsular polysaccharide
of Hactnophilus influenzae type b (Hib)

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Questions!

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