Immunizations Flashcards
Usually long-lasting immunity that is acquired through production of antibodies within the organism in response to the presence of antigens?
Active Immunity
Substance capable of inducing formation of antibodies?
Antigen
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?
Anti-Toxin
Covalently attaching an antigen (polysaccharide organism) to a carrier protein?
Conjugation
What is the disorder in which a person’s own immune system damages their nerve cells, causing muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis?
Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)
What is a sterile solution that contains antibodies that were obtained from large pools of human blood plasma.
Immune Globulin
All serum globulins with antibody activity are referred to as what?
Immunoglobulins
Characteristic of disease
Morbidity
The number of deaths in a given time or place?
Mortality
Piercing the mucous membrane or skin through needle sticks, human bites, cuts, and abrasions, injection through some route such as, subcutaneous and intramuscular.
Parenteral
Immunity acquired by transfer of antibodies (as by injection of serum from an individual with active immunity?
Passive Immunity
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)
Polysaccharide
A toxin of pathogenic organism treated to destroy its toxicity but leave it capable of inducing the formation of antibodies on injection
Toxoid
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.
Vaccine
IPV
Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine
