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Salk vaccine Med.|sɒlk, -ɔː-|
[Named after Jonas Edward Salk (b. 1914), U.S. virologist, who developed the vaccine in 1954.]
The first vaccine developed against poliomyelitis, made from viruses of the three immunological types inactivated with formalin.
[1954Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Mar. 593/2 This is..the first large-scale trial of Dr. Salk's vaccine.] 1954Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 10 July 1021/1 There is no chance that injections of Salk vaccine will cause human Rh-negative subjects to produce Rh antibodies. 1958Oxford Mail 22 Aug. 1/9 Chicago has been completely free from polio this year for the first time, states the Health Department, which credited this to the extensive use of Salk vaccine. 1964[see killed ppl. a. 1 c]. 1976M. Grossman in W. L. Drew Viral Infections ix. 246 The Salk vaccine is no longer manufactured nor used in the United States. |