VACCINATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vaccinated mean? 

• VACCINATED (adjective)
  The adjective VACCINATED has 1 sense:

1. having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease

  Familiarity information: VACCINATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VACCINATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease

Synonyms:

immunised; immunized; vaccinated

Similar:

insusceptible; unsusceptible (not susceptible to)

 Context examples 

All children younger than 5 years of age should be vaccinated with the Hib vaccine.

(Haemophilus Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Nine out of 10 animals vaccinated with IV BCG were highly protected; six showed no detectable infection in any tissue tested and three had only very low counts of Mtb bacteria in lung tissue.

(Changed route of immunization dramatically improves efficacy of TB vaccine, National Institutes of Health)

Since the Mass Vaccination Campaign on 20 Nov 2019, the Ministry has successfully vaccinated 58,150 individuals.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)

The study's findings also show the vaccine is effective post-exposure, which makes it suitable for ring vaccination, the anti-outbreak strategy used in the study, in which everyone who has come into contact with a confirmed case is vaccinated to prevent the illness from spreading.

(Study confirms efficacy of NewLink Genetics ebola vaccine, Wikinews)

Infants with the highest Bifidobacterium levels when they were vaccinated before 15 weeks of age had responses to tuberculosis, polio (oral), tetanus, and hepatitis B vaccines that were from 42 percent to 107 percent higher than infants with the lowest Bifidobacterium levels.

(Gut Bacteria from Breastfeeding Linked to Improved Infant Response to Vaccines, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Six months after vaccination, the researchers exposed groups of vaccinated rhesus macaques (immunized via ID, AE or IV routes) and a group of unvaccinated macaques to a virulent strain of Mtb by introducing the bacteria directly into the animals’ lungs.

(Changed route of immunization dramatically improves efficacy of TB vaccine, National Institutes of Health)