Regardless of whether the vaccine is made up of the antigen itself or the blueprint so that the body will produce the antigen, this weakened version will not cause the disease in the person receiving the vaccine, but it will prompt their immune system to respond much as it would have on its first reaction to the actual pathogen.
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图示抗体如何工作
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有些疫苗需要分几周或几个月多次注射。
Some vaccines require multiple doses, given weeks or months apart.
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这有时是必要的,以便产生长效抗体和发展记忆细胞。
This is sometimes needed to allow for the production of long-lived antibodies and development of memory cells.
In this way, the body is trained to fight the specific disease-causing organism, building up memory of the pathogen so as to rapidly fight it if and when exposed in the future.