VTMED 6428

Vaccines: Theory and Practice

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Broad overview of veterinary vaccines and vaccine programs used in contemporary small and large animal medicine, the poultry industry, aquaculture and equine practice. Considers general guidelines for vaccine use, and the process underlying vaccine development from an industry and scientific perspective. Addresses fundamental mechanisms governing vaccine efficacy, as well as recent advances in the use of carriers, adjuvants and immunostimulants, attenuated pathogens, recombinant subunit vaccines, viral and bacterial vectors for vaccine delivery, and genetic immunization with DNA and mRNA. Finally, the ethics and public perception of vaccine use is discussed.

Prerequisites introductory immunology course or VTMED 5400.

Enrollment Priority Enrollment limited to: second- and third-year veterinary students; or permission of instructor.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2026SP, 2023SP, 2021SP, 2019SP

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