Abstract

In this chapter, we discuss the general concepts of vaccination, antibacterial vaccines, antiviral vaccines, antiparasite vaccines, antiprotozoal vaccines, and antifungal vaccines. The most developed fields of vaccination against infectious organisms are the antiviral vaccines and antibacterial vaccines. Alternative approaches to protect against infectious organisms are also discussed including genetically modified mosquitoes released in the United States, Trojan horse aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases inhibitors, and folk medicine. Plants that used in folk medicine as antimicrobial and discussed in this chapter. Perhaps the most widely accepted reason for mass vaccination is to rapidly increase population (herd) immunity in the setting of an existing or potential outbreak, thereby limiting the morbidity and mortality that might result, especially when there has been no routine vaccination, or because populations have been displaced and routine immunization services disrupted. A second important use of mass vaccination is to accelerate disease control to rapidly increase coverage with a new vaccine at the time of its introduction into routine immunization programs.

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