Immunizations

Question 1

Usually long-lasting immunity that is acquired through production of antibodies within the organism in response to the presence of antigens?

Answer 1

Active Immunity

Question 2

Substance capable of inducing formation of antibodies?

Answer 2

Antigen

Question 3

A solution of antibodies prepared from serum of animals immunized with specific antigens and used to achieve short-term passive immunity in humans who may lack protective antibodies?

Answer 3

Anti-Toxin

Question 4

Covalently attaching an antigen (polysaccharide organism) to a carrier protein?

Answer 4

Conjugation

Question 5

What is the disorder in which a person’s own immune system damages their nerve cells, causing muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis?

Answer 5

Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)

Question 6

What is a sterile solution that contains antibodies that were obtained from large pools of human blood plasma.

Answer 6

Immune Globulin

Question 7

All serum globulins with antibody activity are referred to as what?

Answer 7

Immunoglobulins

Question 8

Characteristic of disease

Answer 8

Morbidity

Question 9

The number of deaths in a given time or place?

Answer 9

Mortality

Question 10

Piercing the mucous membrane or skin through needle sticks, human bites, cuts, and abrasions, injection through some route such as, subcutaneous and intramuscular.

Answer 10

Parenteral

Question 11

Immunity acquired by transfer of antibodies (as by injection of serum from an individual with active immunity?

Answer 11

Passive Immunity

Question 12

What is a carbohydrate that can be decomposed by hydrolysis into two or more molecules of monosaccharides; especially; any of the more complex carbohydrates (as cellulose, starch or glycogen)

Answer 12

Polysaccharide

Question 13

A toxin of pathogenic organism treated to destroy its toxicity but leave it capable of inducing the formation of antibodies on injection

Answer 13

Toxoid

Question 14

A preparation of killed microorganisms, living attenuated organisms, or a living fully virulent organism that is administered to produce or artifically increase immunity to a particular disease.

Answer 14

Vaccine

Question 15

IPV

Answer 15

Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine

Question 16

IG

Answer 16

Immune Globulin

Question 17

IIV

Answer 17

Inactivated Influenza Vaccine (formerly called (TIV)

Question 18

IIV3

Answer 18

Inactivated Influenza Vaccines, Trivalent

Question 19

IIV4

Answer 19

Inactivated Influenza Vaccine, Quadrivalent

Question 20

JE

Answer 20

Japenese Encephalitis

Question 21

JE-MB

Answer 21

Inactivated, mouse brain-derived Japenese Encephalitis Vaccine (JE-VAX) (no longer available)

Question 22

JE-VC

Answer 22

Inactivated, Vero cell culture-derived Japenese Encephalitis vaccine (Ixario)

Question 23

LAIV

Answer 23

Live, Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (Nasal Spray)

Question 24

LAIV4

Answer 24

Live, Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (Quadrivalent)

Question 25

MCV

Answer 25

Measles antigen-containing vaccines

Question 26

MCV4

Answer 26

Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine (Quadrivalent)

Question 27

MenACWY-CRM

Answer 27

Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine, Quadrivalent (Menactra)

Question 28

MMR

Answer 28

Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccine

Question 29

MMRV

Answer 29

Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella Vaccine

Question 30

MPSV4

Answer 30

Meningococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine (Quadravalent)