Can vaccines be designed against all groups of microorganisms?
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Vaccines are made from microbes that are dead or inactive so that they are unable to cause disease. The antigen in the vaccine is the same as the antigen on the surface of the disease-causing microbe. The vaccine stimulates the body to produce antibodies against the antigen in the vaccine.
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The most globally used bacterial vaccines are those included in the national childhood vaccination programs. Currently, mainly two of the vaccines included target bacterial pathogens that also pose antibiotic resistance problems, namely Haemophilus influenzae and Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococci).
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