Virology, Emerging Diseases & vaccines

Vaccines and Antiviral drugs

Vaccines are the biological preparations which provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine can be prophylactic that is preventive healthcare or therapeutic that is pharmaceutical drug.There are some types of vaccine which are being followed till now such as live whole virus vaccines,killed whole virus vaccines,purified or recombinant viral antigen,recombinant virus vaccines,DNA vaccines,anti-idiotype antibodies. Antiviral drugs  are the class of medications used for the treatment in viral infections specifically. Acyclovir,cidofovir,delaviridine,entecavir,famciclovir,ribavirin and zidovudine are some antiviral drugs. Antiretroviral drugs are the class of drugs used in an attempt for the treatment of HIV infections. Monoclonal antibodies are the monospecific antibodies which are composed of identical immune cells that are all clones of a unique parent cell.