vaccinate

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Immunology & vaccination
active immunity
ANA
anti-vax
antibody
antigen
antigenic
antinuclear antibody
electroporation
herd immunity
immune response
immunization
immunocompromised
immunosuppressed
lymph
MMR
titre
unimmunized
uninoculated
unvaccinated
vaccinated

Examples of immunizing

immunizing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Some mechanism of ' innate ' immunity, improving with age, could contribute to more efficient protection against disease even without immunizing encounters.
The strikers refused to elect a leadership, thus immunizing themselves from the effects of victimization and cooption.
However, if infection is transient and immunizing, the presence of infection in older individuals indicates that horizontal infection has occurred at least occasionally.
The proportion of eosinophils generally increased in the peripheral blood with the duration of the immunizing infection.
For this reason the primary immunizing infection of 25 cercariae was administered via the abdominal skin.
Also, increasing the number of immunizing cercariae in single or multiple vaccinations from 1000 to 3000 failed to increase the resistance.
Although all isolates elicited protective responses, two major patterns of immunizing ability could be distinguished (table 4).
The antibody immune response was evaluated after each immunizing dose.
Anti-peptide antibodies were purified by affinity to the immunizing peptide.
The four remaining attributes (mild side effects, vaccine effectiveness, price, and number of children vaccinated) had similar effect sizes, changing the probability of immunizing by between 8% and 13%.
Because of these issues, the simple reproduction number concepts developed with reference to acute immunizing infections, such as measles and rubella, are difficult to interpret when applied to tuberculosis.
These authors also suggest that the development or the severity of the immunizing infection in the host may be the more important factor in determining the degree of cross-protection.
These workers suggested that this resistance was due to the effects of residual inflammation of the intestine after expulsion of the last immunizing infection and not necessarily due to crossimmunity.
This is likely in view of the fact that the intervals, used by these workers, between the last immunizing infection and heterologous challenge, were between 11 and 21 days.
Effective protection against bloodstream trypanosome challenge can be induced experimentally by immunizing animals with whole bloodstream trypanosomes or fractions of their homogenates containing the surface variant antigen.
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