Are pet and human vaccination adjuvants the same?

As with humans, most common adjuvants in pet and other veterinary vaccines are alum (crystalline aluminium salts such as aluminum oxyhydroxide or aluminium hydroxyphosphate) and oil-water emulsions (either water-in-oil or oil-in-water) stabilized by surfactants (detergent). read more

Human Vaccine Adjuvants: Recent Innovations and additions For several decades, the only adjuvant approved for human use was alum. Problem with alum is that it mainly promotes antibody production but not other types of immune responses. read more

Most vaccines use Alum-based adjuvants because they are easiest to get regulatory approval for. Everytime a vaccine goes through the clinical pipeline it is NOT looked at as individual pieces, but as an entire formulation. read more