Multiple choice

Hepatitis B vaccine is placed in which of the following groups?

  1. Subunit vaccine

  2. Inactivated vaccine

  3. Virus-like particle vaccine

  4. Attenuated vaccine
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Explanation

Hepatitis B vaccine is a virus-like particle based vaccine. Virus-like particle vaccines consist of viral proteins derived from the structural proteins of a virus. These proteins can self-assemble into the virus-like particles which are noninfectious as they lack viral nucleic acid.

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