Natural, Artificial, active and passive
exposure to pathogens
What is naturally active acquired immunity?
disease causing agent
What is a pathogen?
Mass of lymphoid tissue
What is a lymph node?
endemic
What is a regularly occurring disease within a community?
Contagious Disease
What is an infectious disease readily transmitted from one person to another?
A vaccine
What is Artificially acquired active immunity?
Resistance to effects of specific disease causing agents
What is immunity?
vessels that transport lymph
What is the lymphatic system?
Pandemic
What is a global out break of a disease with high numbers?
virulence
What is the severity of the disease the pathogen causes?
Attenuated
What is a vaccine that has the pathogens virulence reduced?
foreign substance that stimulates an allergic reaction
What is an allergen?
Largest lymph node
What is the spleen?
Epidemic
What is a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time?
Infectious Disease
What is a disease that results from a pathogenic organism in the body?
acquired through the placenta
What is Naturally acquired passive immunity?
immune suppression in the lab
What is monoclonal antibodies?
Emerging disease
What is a disease that has not occurred in humans before?
ELISA
what is a laboratory technique for identifying specific antigens?
a short-term immunization achieved by the transfer of antibodies
What is Artificially acquired passive immunity?
Antigen
What is a marker that induces an immune response?
type of white blood cell that provides immunity like a B cell or T cell
What is a lymphocyte?
Herd Immunity
What is a large proportion of the population that has become immune to an infectious disease?
What is a B plasma cells fused with a tumour cell?