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Vaccine Ontology
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Definition of vaccine #715

Closed zhengj2007 closed 2 months ago

zhengj2007 commented 3 months ago

vaccine Def: A vaccine is a processed material with the function that when administered, it prevents or ameliorates a disorder in a target organism by inducing or modifying adaptive immune responses specific to the antigens in the vaccine.

Considering vaccine, such as, RNA-vaccine, does not contain any antigen as part of it. We may need to improve the definition.

Proposed Def: A vaccine is a type of material entity with the function to prevent or ameliorate a disorder in a target organism by inducing or modifying adaptive immune responses.

zhengj2007 commented 2 months ago

vaccine def: Material entity that is manufactured to realize the vaccine function.

changed on pull request: https://github.com/vaccineontology/VO/pull/725