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Vaccine

An agent bearing antigens on its surface that causes activation of the immune system without causing actual disease.

Vector

(1) An organism that serves to transfer a disease-causing organism (pathogen) from one organism to another. (2) A mechanism whereby foreign genes are moved into an organism and inserted into that organism's genome.