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What is vaccine ? What are its types ?

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A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease and resembles a disease causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or attenuated or killed forms of the microbes ,their toxins ,or one of its surface protiens .The vaccines are classified as first ,second and third generation vaccines.
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