Sabin vaccine

noun

Sa·​bin vaccine ˈsā-bin- How to pronounce Sabin vaccine (audio)
: a polio vaccine that contains three serotypes of poliovirus in a weakened, live state and is administered orally compare salk vaccine

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Since that lone 2013 case, which might have been transmitted by a foreign traveler to one of the rare individuals in America who never got the Sabin vaccine, there have been no more. — Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 17 May 2024 The component of the Sabin vaccine that most frequently regained the power to paralyze was the part that targeted type 2 polio. — Helen Branswell, STAT, 26 May 2023

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after Albert Sabin, 1906–1993, American immunologist

First Known Use

1955, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of Sabin vaccine was in 1955

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Sabin vaccine

noun
Sa·​bin vaccine ˈsā-bin- How to pronounce Sabin vaccine (audio)
: a polio vaccine that is taken by mouth and contains the three serotypes of poliovirus in a weakened, live state

called also Sabin oral vaccine

compare salk vaccine
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