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Chapter 1-Pharm Tech
Lesson 1 & 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Describe pharmacopeia | A pharmacopeia is a book that sets quality standards for medicines, including their strength, quality, purity, and identity. often published by an official authority like a government or a medical/pharmaceutical society. |
| What is an attenuated vaccine? How is it developed? | It uses viruses that have been weakened by growing them in nonhuman cells. The viruses adapt to those cells, and when they're put back in humans, they induce an effective immune response, but typically don't cause disease. |
| What is the drawback of an attenuated polio vaccine ? | It can mutate to a pathogenic form and cause vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis, or VAPP. It is rare—around five cases per 1 million births, resulting in about 250 to 500 cases per year. |
| What is an attenuated vaccine? How is it developed? | It uses viruses that have been weakened by growing them in nonhuman cells. The viruses adapt to those cells, and when they're put back in humans, they induce an effective immune response, but typically don't cause disease. |
| What is the drawback of an attenuated polio vaccine ? | It can mutate to a pathogenic form and cause vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis, or VAPP. It is rare—around five cases per 1 million births, resulting in about 250 to 500 cases per year. |
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