Vaccine/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Immunology [r]: The study of all aspects of the immune system in all animals. ^[e]
• Infectious disease [r]: In broad terms, diseases caused by living organisms; also a subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the treatment of such diseases ^[e]
• Microbiology [r]: The study of microorganisms (overlapping with areas of virology, bacteriology, mycology, and parasitology). ^[e]
• Pathogen [r]: The organism that causes an infectious disease ^[e]
• Preventive medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vaccination [r]: A preventative health measure that can confer immunity to an infectious disease, without requiring that the vaccinated individual actually contract the disease. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Attenuation [r]: A controlled reduction of strength of some force (e.g., voltage) or microorganism (e.g., an attenuated virus used in a vaccine ^[e]
• Toxoid [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Antigen [r]: A molecule that induces an immune response, such as bee pollen or proteins from viruses or bacteria. ^[e]
• Antitoxin [r]: Immune substances (e.g., immunoglobulin), either created from living cells or synthesized to replicate a natural substance, which is purified and used as a passive immunizing agent against specific bacterial toxins. ^[e]
• Complement [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Complement (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
• Immunoglobulin [r]: Proteins produced by lymphocytes, which are primarily antibodies to attack material the body considers hostile, although some may act as cytokines, signaling to other cells ^[e]
• Ligand [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lymphocyte [r]: Leukocyte originating in lymphoid tissues, fundamental to the immune system, regulating and participating in acquired immunity, with receptor molecules on its surface that bind to a specific antigen. ^[e]
• Monoclonal antibody [r]: Highly specific antibodies produced in large quantity by the clones of a single hybrid cell formed in the laboratory by the fusion of a B cell with a tumor cell. ^[e]
• Neutrophil [r]: Leukocytes (white blood cells) whose primary role is in the cell-mediated immune system, where they destroy hostile substance by phagocytosis. They do release interleukin-12. ^[e]
• Opsonins [r]: A family of proteins, generated by various immune mechanisms, which "tag" cells as targets for defensive digestion by cells that perform phagocytosis ^[e]