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vaccinee

vaccinee

1 5.7
A person who gets a shot to protect against a disease
  • noun
  • /ˌvækɪˈniː/
  • Specialized
: vacunado
  • Post-marketing experience suggests that transmission of the vaccine virus may occur rarely between healthy vaccinees who develop a varicella-like rash and healthy susceptible contacts.
  • vaccinees and controls

Examples

  • There was some protection against travellers' diarrhoea associated with the serologically unrelated ST-ETEC strains (8 cases among vaccinees vs. 14 among controls).

    Academic text (1992)
  • IPV is not as effective; it only benefits the vaccinee, as you mentioned, but does not carry the risk of VAPP.

    Blog text (5)
  • Transmission of vaccine virus from vaccinees without a varicella-like rash has been reported but has not been confirmed.

    Blog text (10)
  • Furthermore, the abundance of Haemophilus and Staphylococcus bacteria in vaccinees was increased over that in controls.

    Academic text (2014)
  • In fact, gastrointestinal symptoms (mostly mild, such as nausea or abdominal discomfort) were more common among controls than among the vaccinees (p < 0.05).

    Academic text (1992)
  • Pain was the most common injection site adverse event, reported by 83.9% of vaccinees, 75.4% of those who received aluminum-containing placebo, and 48.6% of those who received saline placebo.

    Blog text (15)
  • The study showed that vaccinees reported fewer side effects compared to those who did not receive the vaccine.

  • During the trial, each vaccinator carefully monitored the vaccinees for any allergic reactions after the vaccination was administered.

  • The health department is compiling data from vaccinees to assess the overall effectiveness of the new flu vaccine.

How Vaccinated

booster
  • Specialized
17 3.7
vaccinee
  • Specialized
1 5.7
unvaccinated
6 4.7

Surface Forms

vaccinee singular
vaccinees plural

Morphology

vaccinee = vaccine (transparent) = vaccine + ee

Formed by adding the productive recipient-forming suffix '-ee' to 'vaccine', yielding 'one who has been given a vaccine'.

Etymology

Vaccinee comes from vaccine, a word originally linked to 'cow' because early protection came from cowpox, plus the ending -ee meaning 'person who receives', as in employee. So, a vaccinee is someone who has been given a vaccine.