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Two methods for building transmissible vaccines. In panel A, attenuation is used to reduce the virulence of the wild type pathogen. Attenuation is shown here as the gradual accumulation of point mutations (blue). In panel B, recombination is used to insert an immunogenic region of the pathogen genome (red) into the genome of an innocuous but transmissible viral vector (yellow).
