Biology 1202B Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Rna Interference, Microrna, B Cell
10 May 2016
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Quebec measles cases: what you need to know. This is a virus which we have a handle on; not eliminated from the world. Most people in north-america has been immunized for. U. s. multi-state measles outbreak december 28, 2014 march 20, 2015. When you got large number of individual vaccinated herd immunity. Immunization coverage with 1 st dose of measles containing vaccines in infants, 2014. Milkmaids were generally immune to smallpox if they previously had cowpox. Inoculated an 8 year old boy with cowpox. Infection from this mild infection provided immunity with smallpox. Technique of infecting with a similar but less severe form of pathogen. All take advantage of the immune system. Non-specific as it doesn"t recognize specific pathogens. Ability to recognize self from non-self; not specific for non-self. Immunity requires an organism to differentiate between self and foreign. Molecules on the outside of the pathogen: ie: protein in coat or envelope of virus cells can recognize.
