MICROBIOLOGY- Vaccination to prevent infection Flashcards
Name the 2 ways our body protects us from infection
- Innate immunereponse
2. Adaptive immune response
How does our innate immune repose protect us?
- Anatomical barriers
- Temperature, pH
- Chemical eg enzymes, complement interferons
- Cellular
Which cells are involved in our adaptive immune response
B cells (humoral) T cells (cell mediated immunity)
Name cells involved in the innate immune response
- Neutrophils
2. Eosinophils
Define immunisation
Conferring immunity by artificial means
Define vaccination
Conferring immunity to a disease using a vaccine or special antigenic material to stimulate the formation of appropriate antibodies
What is passive immunity
Using antibodies derived from another host
What is active immunity
Modified, killed, pathogens or their antigenic products presented in a way that stimulated an immune response
Name the 3 ways we can prepare antibodies derived from humans
- Hyperimmune where we screen donors with appropriate antibodies
- Normal immunoglobulin
- Humanised monoclonal antibodies
How long do antibodies live?
3-4 weeks
What are the disadvantages of passive immunity
Antibodies are short lived so no long term memory or protection to re infection
What type of vaccines do we have?
- Live vaccines
2. Antigenic component vaccines (Dead vaccines)
How do we use live organisms in a virus
- Inoculation via a different route
- Jennerian approach
- Attenuate the virus
- genetically modify the virus
Give an example of a live vaccine we inoculate via a different route
Adenovirus vaccines
What is the jennerian approach
We use an animal virus that is antigenically related to the virus we want vaccinate from