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IMMUNITY

 Condition of being immune or resistant to a certain disease.

Acquired Immunity

 Immunity obtained either from the development of antibodies in response to exposure to an antigen, as from vaccination or an attack of an infectious disease, or from the transmission of antibodies, as from mother to fetus through the placenta or the injection of antiserum.

1. Active Aquired Immunity

 Antibodies produced within the body resulted from the exposure to an agent.

a. Natural -immunity developed after the infection to a certain pathogen.

b. Artificial - received from a vaccine.

Vaccine - artificially induced immunity.

 A person is deliberately exposed to a harmless pathogen, which will stimulate the person's immune system that may produce a memory to the cell.

 Living, inactive and toxin

 Tetanus toxoid - altered form of toxin, tetanospasmin.

2. Passive Aquired Immunity

Antibodies that were produced by another person or more, or an animal.

Lasts : 3-6 wks

Natural

 Motheràfetus

 Colostrum

Artificial

 Transferrinmg antibodies from an immune person to a susceptible person

 Immune Serum Globulin (ISG) - antibodied taken from the blood of many immune people.

 Hyperimmune Serum Globulin / Specific Immune Globulin - prepared from the serum of persons with high antibody levels against specific disease. (note: IG)

source: Burton's Microbiology for the Health Sciences

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