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Vaccine Antigen
A vaccine component consisting of a protein, small peptide, or polysaccharide, natural or synthetic, that once administered is bound by antibody, thereby inducing mechanisms of antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC). In cancer immunotherapy, a cancer vaccine containing specific tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) may be used to boost an immune response against a tumor expressing those TAAs. (NCI Thesaurus)
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Terminology used in Individual Case Safety Reports to specify an anatomic site where a vaccination was administered.
Source of information regarding the subject's vaccination status.
Treatment with a vaccine.
Treated with a vaccine.
