host immunity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhostandimmunity
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host
noun
uk/həʊst/us/hoʊst/
someone who ...
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immunity
noun[U]
uk/ɪˈmjuː.nə.ti/us/ɪˈmjuː.nə.t̬i/
a situation in which you are protected against disease or from ...
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(Definition ofhostandimmunityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is tempting to implicatehostimmunityand differences in worm immunogenicity as casual factors, although there are no data to support this.
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This pattern of infection makes it difficult to draw conclusions about the possible influences of worm population variation onhostimmunity.
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This may be due to parasite-inducedhostimmunityto reinfection.
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Modulation ofhostimmunityby tick saliva is of major importance both for successful blood feeding and for transmission of tick-borne pathogens.
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Most of our understanding ofhostimmunityto ticks and its effects on tick survival and tick-borne pathogen transmission has been gained from laboratory studies.
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Each child was infected with a different mycobacterial species, suggesting that an innate defect inhostimmunitywas involved.
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An increase in circulating eosinophils was observed at day 14 post-infection but these eosinophils were probably not associated withhostimmunityagainst the primary infection.
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Lastly,hostimmunityis also unlikely to offer an explanation for the deviation between our observations and the massaction infection model.
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Thushostimmunityreduced all these fitness traits in a manner consistent with direct parasitei driven biological links among them.
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Resistance defined as in vivo may be confounded by factors such ashostimmunity.
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This indicated that there was likely to be parasite-inducedhostimmunityunder conditions of high infection pressure.
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These reports mark some of the latest efforts to move from a treatment response to a proactive strategy to conferhostimmunityagainst the pathogen.
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This is probably due to the existinghostimmunityexerting its effect on new ' in-coming ' parasites.
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Thus, in effect,hostimmunityrendered a virulent parasite less virulent, with associated reductions in life-time transmission potential.
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It may be considered as a defensive reaction by the tick, to avoid temporarily the deleterious effects ofhostimmunity.
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Switching between developmental routes is influenced by external temperature and byhostimmunity, and sensitivity to these triggers is again variable between lines.
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Repeated passage has been used to select lines of parasite that survive in abnormal hosts or which show adaptation tohostimmunity.
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Since individuals vary in the effectiveness or the severity of their immune responses to infection,hostimmunitycan be broadly categorized as weaker or stronger.
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In addition, feeding fast benefits ticks by reducing their exposure tohostimmunity.
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An important property of equation (13) is that it predicts that when there is significanthostimmunity it allows for a lower prevalence in old animals compared to young animals.
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