An infectious disease researcher isolates the pathogen responsible for an emerging disease. The microbe is grown in the lab for many generations. A preparation of the laboratory- grown microbe is treated with ionizing radiation and then tested for its potential as a vaccine. What type of vaccine is this?
A) subunit
B) inactivated whole
C) attenuated
D) combination
E) toxoid

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The use of ionizing radiation to treat the microbe suggests that the pathogen is being inactivated, making it an inactivated whole vaccine.

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