Sentences with phrase «protective immunity»
"Protective immunity" refers to the body's ability to defend itself against harmful pathogens, such as viruses or bacteria. It is a state where our immune system recognizes and fights off these invaders, preventing them from causing diseases or infections. It keeps us safe from getting sick. Full definition
The findings also reveal an unexpected connection between an RNA processing mechanism and protective immunity in a specific region of the brain.
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Over the past 25 years, multiple platforms have been developed in attempts to create vaccines that can effectively induce protective immunity to these pathogens.
This is a normal response by your pet's immune system during the process of developing protective immunity.
They also assume that current strain - matched vaccines illicit no cross protective immunity.
The length of time these natural exposures and the vaccinations will produce protective immunity will vary greatly.
This is why adult boosters are needed to ensure protective immunity.
The three - in - one vaccaintion for panleukopenia / rhinotracheitis / calici virus given at eight, 12, and 16 weeks should offer long - term protective immunity for most kittens.
These results show that it is possible to elicit long - lasting protective immunity against cell - associated HIV - 1.
Dr. Schultz concludes in his 2010 paper, Age and Long - term Protective Immunity in Dogs and Cats, «In general, adaptive immunity following vaccination with modified live virus (MLV) vaccines develops earliest and most effectively in that it is often complete and duration of immunity is often lifelong.»
«This,» said Dr. Barribeau, «suggests a greater investment in protective immunity by the females, which will one day start their own colonies, than by the males, whose role is essentially just for reproduction.»
In this issue, Miles et al. demonstrate that a synthetic D - amino acid mimic of a naturally occurring influenza peptide can induce protective immunity with the added benefit of enhanced stability.
In a modified - live or live - attenuated vaccine, the causative organism (virus, bacterium, etc.) has been weakened or altered so that it is no longer harmful or virulent, but is still capable of stimulating protective immunity when injected or otherwise administered.
«We observed rapid and durable protective immunity without adverse events, and so we think this candidate vaccine represents a promising strategy for the global fight against Zika virus,» said senior author Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, a professor of Infectious Disease at Penn. «We hope to start clinical trials in 12 to 18 months.»
The durability of the vaccine (that is, how long protective immunity lasts after vaccination) is not yet established, and one longer - duration follow - up study of vaccinated individuals suggested that vaccination might not convey long - lasting immunity to all recipients.
As an alternative to yearly or triennial vaccinations, serum antibody titers may also be measured, which often document protective immunity for 7 years or or longer.
«In this single molecule, you have a synthetic peptide that can kill microbes — both susceptible and drug - resistant — and at the same time can act as an anti-inflammatory mediator and enhance protective immunity,» de la Fuente says.
«This study will be held up as a way that other people should be analyzing protective immunity,» says David Sacks, who heads the Intracellular Parasite Biology Section of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Ideally, therapy for autoimmune diseases should eliminate pathogenic autoimmune cells while sparing protective immunity, but feasible strategies for such an approach have been elusive.
It uses chimpanzees in an effort to understand protective immunity to the hepatitis C virus.
In order to achieve sustained protective immunity against AIDS, a vaccination strategy inducing a balanced immune response without an increase of CD4 + T helper cells must be developed (Journal of Virology).
«Vaccination normally generates protective immunity that prevents the disease for years in a population at a relatively low cost; whereas, antiviral therapies can only be treating the diseases at a higher cost rather than offer long - term protection.»
We predicted that these diversified epitope regions would be the targets of mutation as the 2009 H1N1 pandemic (pH1N1) lineage evolves in response to the development of population - level protective immunity in humans.
The Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) vaccine consisting of attenuated Mycobacterium bovis preparations is the only approved vaccine against TB, but no longer provides protective immunity in some populations.
I am interested in understanding how dengue virus and zika virus - specific T - cell responses can mediate protective immunity or disease pathogenesis, and in defining new protective T - cell epitopes for immunotherapeutic reagents or novel vaccine development.
Veterinary titer tests use the IgG class of immunoglobulin antibody to assess protective immunity to a particular virus, such as parvovirus or distemper.
Studies have shown that shelters take in a greater percentage than vet clinics of adult animals without prior protective immunity (either natural exposure or vaccination) against panleukopenia or parvovirus, and it is not unusual for adult animals to be affected during shelter outbreaks.
We have assessed duration of protective immunity primarily by two procedures; the first is held to be the «gold standard and that is to challenge the vaccinated animal with the virulent organism, the second method is to measure antibody and compare the antibody titer to that which is known to prevent infection (e.g. provide sterile immunity).
There are many benefits babies receive as a result of nursing from and interacting with mom, but the passage of protective immunity from the mother through the milk ceases just a few days after birth.
Vaccinating your pet, or running a titer test to confirm protective immunity can prevent your pet from contracting a serious infectious disease, or lessen the symptoms of an infectious disease, upon exposure at dog parks, grooming salons, boarding facilities, and even in your own backyard or inside your home.
Also, in theory and for the same reason, the vaccine might not be as likely to create protective immunity.»
Patients who are infected with one serotype develop protective immunity against that serotype alone — however, this immunity oddly leaves patients vulnerable for severe disease if future infections are caused by a different serotype.
Vaccination of mice with the 38C13 scFv purified from plants induced protective immunity against lymphoma challenge in the absence of KLH or other immune enhancing agents.
Sometimes the vaccine induced protective immunity lasts for years without needing a repeat (booster) vaccination; however, some diseases need yearly revaccination to keep immunity at a protective level.
«We are excited to learn more about these cells and how they confer this long - lasting protective immunity.»
The two - in - one parvo / distemper vaccination given at eight, 12, and at 16 weeks of age should offer long - term protective immunity for most puppies.
The goal of vaccinating pets is to stimulate protective immunity to a specific disease.
Fourth, there is theoretical potential for inducing autoimmune disease such as uveitis and, lastly, there is incomplete knowledge of mechanisms of protective immunity against leptospiral infection.»
The live - attenuated vaccine, VSV - EBOV, uses genetically engineered vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) to carry an EBOV gene that has safely induced protective immunity in macaques.
There is no drug that kills guinea worm, no vaccine and no protective immunity after infection.
«We can figure out what genetic variations an individual has that might pose an obstacle to protective immunity, and then reverse - engineer a vaccine candidate around that obstacle,» he says.
Infection elicits CD4 + memory T lymphocytes that participate in protective immunity.
cruzi T cell immunity, and booster immunization would be an effective strategy to maintain or enhance the vaccine - induced protective immunity against T. cruzi infection and Chagas disease.»
«Therefore, by understanding how gill immunity works, we hope to find better ways to deliver vaccines into the gills of these animals and induce protective immunity to infectious diseases.»
The meeting explored the genomic epidemiology of the host, vector and parasite, highlighting the practical relevance of this research to global health, including antimalarial drug resistance, insecticide resistance, vaccine design, and mechanisms of protective immunity.