Inactivated vaccines have been:
A) killed
B) slowed
C) processed
D) modified
A) killed
A) Inactivated vaccines contain microorganisms that have been killed. Most bacterial vaccines are inactivated. It is important to understand that the live vaccines contain less immunogen than the killed vaccines, and must actually cause an infection within the patient to induce a protective immune response.
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