Resistance, Immunity, and Vaccines

Question 1

What is MDR/EDR?

Answer 1

Multi-drug resistant and extensively drug resistant

Question 2

Describe natural, active immunity.

Answer 2

You become immune because you got sick or were naturally exposed to an immunogen.

Question 3

Describe natural, passive immunity.

Answer 3

You are immune based on someone else’s immune response–such as a baby fighting pathogens with antibodies from the mother’s breast milk.

Question 4

Describe artificial, active immunity.

Answer 4

You are immune because you were shown an attenuated live virus/bacteria or were given killed pathogen.

Question 5

Describe artificial, passive immunity.

Answer 5

You are immune when doctors give you antisera developed from immune animals (like tetanus antibody).

Question 6

Before the pertussis vaccine, there were _______ deaths per year.

Answer 6

7,000

Question 7

Conjugate vaccines help ________.

Answer 7

Tfh switch B cells from IgM to IgG

Question 8

Alums (aluminum compounds) mimic _____, which leads to ________.

Answer 8

PAMPs; a more effective adaptive response