Design, Development, and Implementation of Vaccines

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Pre -requisites: MICR 8540, MICR 8499. This course provides the student with basic and advanced knowledge about the diverse strategies to be considered to develop any vaccine against infectious agents. General aspects of vaccines against infectious agents, both those commercially available and those in developing status, will be studied, including the safety and adverse effects of them. The course will initiate with the reviewing of the history of vaccines. Then, emphasis will be placed on describing the vaccines of first, second and third gener ation; the scientific approaches to generate vaccines; as well as the discussion of their benefits and their risks. The course also comprises the study of necessary events to produce a vaccine at analytical levels and the different levels of validation until their commercially mass manufacturing. Methods to monitor vaccines effectiveness in public health and controversies related to the adverse effects of vaccines that several groups have raised will also be discussed. MICR 8562 - Advanced Topics in the Genetics of Microorganisms. One (1) credit. Topics of interest related to Microbial Genetics will be discussed.