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There are two types of immunodeficiency
Congenital and adquired
What is allergy?
An allergy is where your body reacts to something that's normally harmless like pollen, dust or animal fur.
What is immunodeficiency?
Inability to produce an adequate immune response because of an insufficiency or absence of antibodies, immune cells, or both
Define autoimmunity
It is the condition that occurs when our immune system attacks its own tissues and cells.
Which doctor carried out the first vaccination?
Edward Jenner
what type of immunity do vaccines provide?
active acquired immunity
Define vaccine
A preparation that is used to stimulate the body's immune response against diseases
Two types of antigen-presenting cells
dendritic cells and macrophages
They are white blood cells of the innate immune system, that destroy infected and diseased cells, like cancer cells.
Natural killer cells
When these cells sense an infection, they activate other immune cells to fight it.
Helper T cell
Give two examples of first-defense barriers (physical or chemical)
skin, saliva, mucous, cilia, etc
What is herd immunity?
A situation in which a disease cannot spread through a group of people because enough of them are immune usually because of having been vaccinated
What type of organism causes measles?
A virus
What initiates an immune response?
An antigen
Name one cell that belongs to the specific (adaptive) immune system
Memory T-cells, Memory B-cells, lymphocyte Th, Tc, lymphocyte B
When you are immune to a disease, what does that mean?
You will not contract the disease
Which white blood cells are the antibody factories?
B cells
What are the four main types of pathogens?
Viruses, Bacteria, Protozoa, and Fungi
It is an infectious microbe consisting of a segment of nucleic acid (either DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protein coat
virus
Bacterial infections can be treated with
antibiotics
What does the immune system do?
It provides a general defense against harmful microrganisms and substances
Which system produces immune cells?
skeletal system
Which diseases are caused by the environment or a genetic disorder, and not contagious?
Non-Infectious Diseases
What are pathogens?
Any microrganisms, such as a virus or a bacterium that can cause disease
Which immune system are you born with?
Innate
Which diseases are caused by pathogens, and usually contagious?
Infectious diseases
Two types of immunity
innate and acquired
What do B cells do?
Produce antibodies