VTMED 6428 - [Vaccines: Theory and Practice]

Spring. Not offered: 2023-2024. Next offered: 2024-2025. 1 credit. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: introductory immunology course or VTMED 5400. Enrollment limited to: second- and third-year veterinary students; or permission of instructor. Offered in odd-numbered years only.

T. Clark.

Broad overview of veterinary vaccines and vaccine programs used in contemporary small and large animal medicine, the poultry industry, aquaculture and equine practice. Considers general guidelines for vaccine use, and the process underlying vaccine development from an industry and scientific perspective. Addresses fundamental mechanisms governing vaccine efficacy, as well as recent advances in the use of carriers, adjuvants and immunostimulants, attenuated pathogens, recombinant subunit vaccines, viral and bacterial vectors for vaccine delivery, and genetic immunization with DNA and mRNA. Finally, the ethics and public perception of vaccine use is discussed.