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When is it useful to give a vaccine post-infection?
I was reading this answer about the rabies vaccine, which explains that giving the vaccine post-exposure is effective because the vaccine stimulates a more rapid immune response than the infection ...
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Fluctuations in disease burden of respiratory viruses (especially influenza/coronaviruses)
Compared to peaks in terms of disease burden (morbidity and mortality, or incidence of severely symptomatic cases and deaths caused by a viral strain within a population), is the relatively light ...
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SARS-COV-2 detectability versus viability
This week (#47 of 2020) two meta-reviews were published in the Lancet.
Ct values and infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces, a brief review published on 19 November in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, ...
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How antibodies are produced in our body against intracellular proteins of infectious bacteria?
When an infectious agent invades our body, then surface antigens of the infectious agent are detected by our immune system and B-cells get activated. However, we do have antibodies in our blood ...
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What differentiates diseases like Covid-19 and Polio from the common cold
Why are vaccines required for our body's immune system to destroy viruses that cause the likes of Covid-19 or Polio, while viruses that cause the common-cold are self-limiting (go away on their own)? ...
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Is slow growth a virulence factor?
Many slow-growth pathogens (e.g. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, lentivirus, Rhabdovirus, Leptospira spp) are difficult to treat. In addition, a review of 61 pathogens found that
slower growing ...
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Why reaginic antibodies are absent in these types of syphilis?
According to Textbook of Microbiology and Immunology
2e, Subhash Chandra Parija, pg.no; 375
These(reaginic) antibodies do not appear in early primary syphilis, latent acquired syphilis of long ...
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Can immune cells be recruited to an area of inflammation, and later go on to a second?
With regards to innate or adaptive immune cells... can naive/immature cells such as neutrophils, monocytes, macrophage/dendritic cells or adaptive T-cells be recruited to an area of inflammation, for ...
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