Meaning of superimmunity | Babel Free

Definitions

The state of being exceptionally resistant to disease.

uncountable

Examples

“Under these conditions, inoculations with the virus cause a reaction fever without any internal symptoms of the disease and in this way generally, after 3 inoculations, superimmunity is assured against natural infection which lasts during the whole dairy period for milch cows.”

“The goal of cloning superimmunity to the limited number⟳ of phages that attack some S. cremoris strains, in particular, is attractive. A prerequisite, however, is a concerted study⟳ of the biochemistry and molecular biology of phage repressor systems in the lactic streptococci.”

“Our results are consistent with those obtained by other groups screening camelid-derived libraries, where an impressive diversity in the Nb nucleotide sequence, specificity and neutralizing capacity was found, especially after successive immunizations to promote⟳ the development of superimmunity.”

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