Vaccination vs Prophylaxis - What's the difference?
vaccination | prophylaxis |
Inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.
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, title= (medicine) Prevention of, or protective treatment for disease.
(chess) A move or strategy that frustrates an opponent's plan or tactic.
As nouns the difference between vaccination and prophylaxis
is that vaccination is inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease while prophylaxis is prevention of, or protective treatment for disease.vaccination
English
(wikipedia vaccination)Noun
(-)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination .}}
