4.4 Active Immunisation And Vaccination, And The Evasion Of Specific Immune Respondes By Pathogens

Question 1

Substance added to a vaccine to enhance the immune response

Answer 1

Adjuvant

Question 2

Methods of obtaining data about new drugs or treatments

Answer 2

Clinical trials

Question 3

Method in which neither trail participant nor experimenter knows the treatment given

Answer 3

Double-blind protocol

Question 4

Principle by which many vaccinated individuals protect those unvaccinated

Answer 4

Herd immunity

Question 5

Virus that attacks lymphocytes, often leading to aids

Answer 5

HIV

Question 6

Existence of memory lymphocytes, allowing rapid response to re-infection

Answer 6

Immunological memory

Question 7

Viral infection that can become pandemic

Answer 7

Influenza

Question 8

Globally important disease caused by a protozoan infection

Answer 8

Malaria

Question 9

Procedure that involves giving certain participants a blank instead of the drug under trial

Answer 9

Placebo-controlled protocol

Question 10

A single-cells organism; some protozoans can cause disease

Answer 10

Protozoan

Question 11

Describing protocols in clinical trials that are the result of chance selection

Answer 11

Randomised

Question 12

Repeat experiment in an investigation or clinical trial

Answer 12

Replicate

Question 13

Disease caused by a protozoan

Answer 13

Trypanodomiasis

Question 14

Disease caused by a bacterium that can survive within phagocytes

Answer 14

Tuberculosis (TB)

Question 15

Using an antigen that had been made harmless to produce an immune response a memory cells

Answer 15

Vaccination