From: Future perspectives on swine viral vaccines: where are we headed?
Main vaccine category | Subtypes |
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Whole pathogen | • Attenuated-live |
• Inactivated (killed) | |
• Chimeric (attenuated-live or inactivated) | |
Subunit or vector system baseda | • Prokaryotic (unicellular organisms without a distinct nucleus)  ○Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis • Eukaryotic (unicellular or multicellular organisms with an enveloped nucleus)  ○Yeast, mammalian cells, baculovirus expression in insect cells, plants, transgenic animals • Live mammalian virus vectors (replicating or replication deficient) |
Nucleic acid based | • DNA plasmid(s) • mRNA |