adjuvant

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Basically they had difficulty making "acceptable" vaccine that did not contain an immune booster called an adjuvant, which is used in several countries but not the United States.

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  1. noun A pharmacological agent added to a drug to increase or aid its effect.
  2. noun An immunological agent that increases the antigenic response.

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  • In addition, Avastin as an adjuvant is anticipated to generate $2. 6bn by 2015 but again this could be as high as —  in-PharmaTechnologist RSS
  • The new vaccine is made from a single CMV protein that was combined with an experimental adjuvant, a substance that's added to vaccines to boost their efficacy. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • An adjuvant is a substance added to a vaccine to improve the immune system response it elicits. —  WANE TV
  • At 2 and 4 weeks after the first immunization, additional doses of 20 µg of rM protein emulsified in incomplete Freund's adjuvant were administered. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The vaccine does not contain adjuvant, a substance added to some vaccines to improve the body's response to vaccine. —  Health News from Medical News Today
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  1. From Latin adiuvāns, adiuvant-, present participle of adiuvāre, to help; see aid.

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  1. from Latin adjuvan(t-)s, present participle of adjuvare, help: see aid.
 

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/ˈædʒuvənt/
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