INTRO TO IMMUNOLOGY Flashcards
Grew from observations of recovery and subsequent
protection from certain infectious diseases.
IMMUNITY
Derived from the Latin term immunis, meaning “exempt.”
IMMUNITY
Described a plague in Athens.He noted that, only those who had recovered could nurse the sick because they did not contract the disease a second time.
THUCYDIDES
Noticed that milkmaids with cowpox (Vaccinia virus) seem to be immune to acquiring smallpox
EDWARD JENNER
Dried smallpox crusts inhaled or inserted into cuts
VARIOLATION
cowpox
Vaccinia virus
small pox
variola virus
The cowpox and smallpox viruses belong to the same family, …, and share similar structural proteins and antigens.
Poxviridae
the memory cells generated in response to cowpox can recognize and respond to smallpox virus if it later enters the body.
antigenic similarity
He called the attenuated strain
Vaccine
Father of Immunology
LOUIS PASTEUR
anthrax bacteria
Bacillus anthracis
Founded to treat rabies victims
Pasteur Institute
what animal is tested in the anthrax experiment
sheep
Resistance to the spread of a contagious disease within a population that results if a sufficiently high proportion of individuals are immune to the disease, especially through vaccination.
HERD IMMUNITY