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- 2. germs that infect you leading to sickness
- 6. medicines that fight bacterial infections in people and animals
- 7. a toxin or other foreign substance which induces an immune response in the body
- 8. cells that develop from stem cells in bone marrow
- 12. cells develop from stem cells in the bone marrow and become different types of white blood cells
- 13. cells that help fight infections
- 15. being resistant to particular infections
- 17. immunity someone is infected with the disease
- 18. line of defense the innate immune system
- 20. proteins that protect you when an unwanted substance enters your body
- 21. cells that form antibodies
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- 1. the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce protection from a specific disease
- 3. immune system- the cells and proteins that defend the body against infection
- 4. immunity the body is given immunity to a disease by intentionally exposing to small quantities of it
- 5. cell within the body capable of engulfing and absorbing bacteria and other small cells and particles.
- 9. important component of the first-line defense against pathogens and tumor cells
- 10. one of two cycles that a virus can use to reproduce inside a host cell
- 11. happens when germ like bacteria and fungi develop the ability to defeat drugs designed to kill them
- 14. cycle that involves the incorporation of the viral genome into the host cell genome, infecting it from within
- 16. line of defense nonspecific resistance that destroys invaders in a generalized way without targeting specific individuals
- 19. line of defense immune cells that target specific antigens
