MBIO 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Mmrv Vaccine, Inactivated Vaccine, Herd Immunity

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Microbiology
• Course: MBIO 1220
• Professor: Silvia Cardona

Document Summary

Everyone has been immunized against disease, either when growing up in canada or when entering into canada"s citizenship programs. This unit will give you an understanding of how these immunizations work and what is being presented to your immune system. Immunizations are important in keeping certain human diseases within controllable levels in our country. Unit activities: read the following sections in chapter 18 of the textbook. The summaries and/or guidelines provided with the reading list will direct you to the examinable parts of each textbook section: section 18. 1: principles of immunization. Read this section and define all terms that appear in boldface in the text. Be sure that you understand the information presented in figure 18. 2: section 18. 2: vaccines and immunization procedures. The purpose of vaccination is to induce an artificial active immune response that will provide protection should the disease-causing agent be encountered.