acquired immunity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofacquireandimmunity
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acquire
verb[T]
uk/əˈkwaɪər/us/əˈkwaɪɚ/
to get or ...
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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 ofacquireandimmunityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofacquired immunity
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Examination of eels on day 112 revealed no indication foracquiredimmunityresulting from the primary infection.
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The presence of dead parasites may not confer anacquiredimmunityto re-infection.
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Our conclusions on the role ofacquiredimmunitycritically depend on the ability of the models to explain the observed age-specific data.
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In conclusion, we provide the first controlled experimental evidence that strongacquiredimmunityresults from exposure to small infective doses during a prolonged period.
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Decreased recovery of invading parasites from the lungs as a parameter ofacquiredimmunityto schistosomiasis in the mouse.
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If specificacquiredimmunityis involved, then the inference is that this stage, not the skin stage, is the target of the immune response.
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Acquiredimmunityusually leads to a ' convex ' tendency in the age-intensity profile due to enhanced immunological defence after experience of infection, either against the invading or established parasite stages.
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Decreased recovery of invading parasites from the lungs as a parameter ofacquiredimmunityto schistosomiasis in the laboratory mouse.
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Huge masses of myxosporidian developmental stages are usually conspicuous only in immature diseased fish which have not yetacquiredimmunity.
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A self-healing phenomenon in rhesus monkeys is indicative of the development of anacquiredimmunity.
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In vertebrates,acquiredimmunitytypically provides anti-disease resistance, often by reducing the rate of in-host replication of the parasite.
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In the present study the main evidence ofacquiredimmunitywas primarily a significant 42 % reduction in worm counts.
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This served to rank the animals for naturallyacquiredimmunityon which basis they were allocated randomly into 4 comparable groups of cattle.
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Effects of immunosuppression and serum and cell transfer on innate andacquiredimmunity.
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The present study, therefore, does not exclude a role for hostacquiredimmunityin determining the worm rejection phenotype observed in the juvenile rabbit.
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Our analysis is based on competition between vaccination-induced and naturallyacquiredimmunity.
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Thus, it seems probable that orthodox reformed children under the age of 5 who were mumps virus antibody positiveacquiredimmunitychiefly through vaccination.
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