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Does vaccination against hepatitis B provide immunity for life?
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Injections given on day 0, one month, six months gives immunity for five years. The booster is to be taken every five years there after.
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The process of vaccination?
Vaccination is the process of attempting to confer artificial immunity on an individual organism by exposing the immune system to antigens of the pathogen being vaccinated against. Vaccination does not provide nearly as good protection as natural, or acquired immunity.
What immunity results when millions of memory b cells remain in the body?
Memory b cells provide long term immunity for a specific disease or antigen. As an example a vaccination for hepatitis A provides memory b cells that will attack the disease when it is present and remove it.
What is the weakened agent of disease that can provide immunity for a particular disease?
That is called a vaccination.
Which activity would stimulate the human immune system to provide protection against and invasion by a microbe?
Vaccination against chicken pox.
If I am vaccinated against meningococcal meningitis but my boyfriend isn't vaccinated can I still get it?
Yes, the vaccination doesn't provide 100% protection.
What are examples of artificial active immunity?
Active immunity is acquired from vaccinations or from infection against a pathogen. The next time you encounter the same pathogen your body has built memory against it and will be able to fight it much more efficiently. Passive immunity is primarily through a mother to a baby or fetus. Through the placenta the mother transfers her immunity (IgG antibodies) to her fetus. Also through breast milk she can although the placenta is much more so. The baby has her/his immunity from the mother but it only lasts a few months because the baby hasn't developed his/her own immunity.
A substance prepared from killed or weekend pathogens?
it is called Vaccine whcih when administrated in any individual provide immunity against that pathogen..
How common is reinfection after recover from lice infestation?
Lice infestation does not provide immunity against reinfection; recurrences are in fact quite common.
What happen when a lamb does not get colostral?
It may die, lambs need colostrum to help provide immunity against common diseases that sheep can die from.
What type of vaccine help us fight against food poising?
Well there are many competeing theories on the answer to this question and the answer to all is that ya mum is obese. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hep A vaccine, it is a series of injections, not just one shot. Also, if you have had hepatitis A in the past, you may be provide immunity. It is a good idea to get a Hep A series, if you do a lot of traveling outside of your own country.
What is the type of immune serum used to provide passive immunity to botulism passive immunity?
antitoxin
If you were to transfuse a person with plasma proteins from a person or an animal that has been actively immunized against a specific antigen would it provide active or passive immunity?
active
