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Tetanus toxoid is a vaccine that prevents a person from contracting lockjaw. Lockjaw is a potentially deadly disease because its poison attacks the nervous system.
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What type of immunity do you get when you get a vaccine?
Tetanus shots protect against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis.
What type of immunity results from injection of tetanus toxoid?
Artificially acquired active immunity
Getting flu shot to keep from getting flu is example of this type immunity?
artificial active
How long before you get a tetnis shot?
The Tetanus vaccine is given to babies as part of a three part series called DTaP. This shot includes the vaccine for diptheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis. After the three part series, the Tdap shot should be given every ten years as a booster. This shot again includes tetanus, diptheria and acellular pertussis, but contains smaller amounts of the last two. If you do not get the ten year boosters you should definitely get a tetanus shot if you have a severe rug burn, are cut by any type of metal (including, but not limited to: staples, nails, gates, etc.) or get soil in a wound.
What type of pathogen is tetanus?
Tetanus is caused by a bacterium, Clostridium tetani, so the pathogen type is bacterial.
What type of immunity produces antibodies?
specific immunity
Why is there a shot that can protect you from getting measles but no shot that can protect you from getting AIDS?
That is because there has not been a cure for aids yet. Measels was cured and then it was found that minor expoure to the virus would help build up an immunity to it, aids affects the immune system so no immunity would form from that type of injection.
You steped on a nail and had a tetanus shot in 2004 do you need another shot?
Stepping on a rusty nail or any other type of puncture wound could cause a tetanus infection, a bacterial disease that affects the nervous system and is often fatal. This is not the ONLY way to contract the disease but one should always get checked out after cutting or puncturing the skin with any kind of rusty object.
What type of pathogen is the tetanus?
virus
What are tetanus?
A type of pathogenic bacteria.
What type of immunity does inhaling a virus produce?
Active Immunity
Which type of immunity do you get if you are coming down with the flu?
Active Immunity
