亚单位疫苗

亞單位疫苗
yàdānwèiyìmiáo
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 subunit vaccine

Examples

Yàdānwèiyìmiáo zhǐ shǐyòng bìngyuántǐ de bùfèn kàngyuán.
Subunit vaccines use only a portion of the pathogen's antigens.
Yǐgān yìmiáo jiùshì yī zhǒng diǎnxíng de yàdānwèiyìmiáo.
The hepatitis B vaccine is a typical subunit vaccine.

Tips

usage
单位 means 'subunit' ( = sub, 单位 = unit). Subunit vaccines contain purified pieces of a pathogen rather than the whole organism, making them safer but often requiring adjuvants to boost immune response.

Stroke Order

dān
wèi
miáo