vaccine
substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute
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Summary
vaccine is a remedy[1]. vaccine draws 11,349 Wikipedia views per month (remedy category, ranking #2 of 4).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Edward Jenner[3]
- Named after: cow[4]
- Subclass of: biopharmaceutical[5], medication[6]
- Has use: vaccination of dogs[7], vaccination[8]
- Commons category: Vaccines[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Vaccines[10]
- Commons gallery: Vaccine[11]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[12], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Infernal Dictionary, 6th ed.[14]
- Topic has template: Modèle:Infobox Vaccin[15], Template:Vaccines[16]
- Has effect: adaptive immune system[17], neutralizing antibody[18]
- Has characteristic: vaccine efficacy[19], vaccine safety[20], vaccine adverse event[21], vaccine type[22]
- Main Wikidata property: P1924[23]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C923[24]
- History of topic: timeline of vaccines[25]
- Hashtag: vaccines[26]
- Studied by: vaccinology[27]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Zika Corpus[28], WikiProject COVID-19[29], Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[30], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[31]
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Outcome and Impact
Things named for vaccine include vaccine resistance[32].
Why It Matters
vaccine has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] vaccine is known by 71 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]
Entities named for vaccine include vaccine resistance[32].