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DPT-vaccine

DPT-vaccine is the alternative form of DPT vaccine.

Meaning of DPT vaccine

Noun

DPT vaccine (plural DPT vaccines)

  1. (US) Any publicly administered vaccine comprising a combination of vaccines against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus.
    • Even though it may have held about 50 percent of the market with a product that was reputed to be safer than the other DPT vaccines available, Lilly was willing to sacrifice Trisolgen.1985, Harris Livermore Coulter, Barbara Loe Fisher, DPT: a Shot in the Dark, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 302

Forms of DPT-vaccine

pluralDPT-vaccines

Questions about DPT-vaccine

What is DPT-vaccine the alternative form of?
DPT-vaccine is the alternative form of DPT vaccine.

Words near DPT-vaccine in the dictionary

  1. DPST
  2. DPSTs
  3. DPT
  4. DPT vaccine
  5. DPT vaccines
  6. DPT-vaccine
  7. DPT-vaccines
  8. dpt.
  9. DPTs
  10. dpty
  11. DPV

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