Immune response

... antibiotic. Third, the bacteria becomes successful because it is immune to the man-made antibiotic. So it freely proliferates and passes its ... argument, it still strikes me as fundamentally illogical. And the only response you can come up with is to cry "straw man" and quote the ...

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... virus' ability to rapidly respond to selective pressures imposed by the immune system, the population of virus in an infected individual typically ... with a high degree of genetic divergence. Therefore, the immune responses raised by any vaccine need to be broad enough to account for this ...

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... physical barrier. The host's complement system, which acts as a passive response against invading organisms, attracts phagocytes and is directly ... to their cellular surfaces, and can evade these mechanisms of the host immune system. However, the bacterial polysaccharide is directly antigenic, ...

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... be treated. My opinion is that even the so called harmless ones cause immune response, playing havoc with your immune system, which of course is mainly orchestrated in ...

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... (the virus infects completely different cell types or species), immune defense, viral inactivation due to other external sources and so on. ... but by chance happen to do so. The wildly activating human immune response is then often the biggest culprit for the severe symptoms, the virus ...

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