After exposure, disease can often be prevented or ameliorated via immunization and therapeutic use of antibiotics, antiviral drugs, and hyperimmune gammaglobulins.
For many agents, immunization or pre-exposure prophylaxis with antibiotics may prevent illness in those subsequently exposed.
Factors of prime importance in determining the nature and severity of the disease effects are-- ยท Immunization status of personnel.
Efficacy of both prior and future immunization in this group is not adequately understood.
The preventive treatment consists in using all possible precautions to prevent the exposure of susceptible animals and practising the immunization of exposed animals.
The immunization of cattle that are shipped into an infected district for breeding purposes is often practised.
When I took office, immunization levels for preventable childhood diseases had fallen to 70%.
Immunization against childhood disease, school lunches in all our schools, Head Start, medical care and nutrition for pregnant women and infants--all these things are in the national interest.
To take advantage of modern vaccination achievements, I am proposing a mass immunization program, aimed at the virtual elimination of such ancient enemies of our children as polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus.
A monthly bulletin of the Pasteur Institute, containing mostly technical articles, but also articles of interest to persons interested in problems of immunization and immune sera.
The subject of the lecture is "Artificial Immunizationfrom Disease.
Where the disease is general, successful efforts adopted for its control have followed the immunization by inoculation of the exposed animals and a strict application of appropriate sanitary measures.
Immunization against blackleg is now frequently accomplished by the use of the so-called blackleg aggressin and blackleg filtrates.
For immunization purposes it is advisable to use the simultaneous method; that is, both the spore vaccine and the anthrax serum should be injected.
It is to be noted that in the process of immunization complement does not increase in amount; accordingly the immune serum comes to contain immune body much in excess of the amount of complement necessary to complete its action.
This conclusion is not justified, as we must suppose that the process of immunization begins to be developed at an early period in the disease, that it gradually increases, and ultimately results in cure.
The first to attempt active immunization and cure of hay fever by injecting extracts of the pollen that causes the disease appears to have been Noon, working in Wright's laboratory in London.
The first antidiastase obtained by immunization methods, and according to the mechanism we have already seen, was antiemulsin, obtained by Hildebrandt.
I can easily see that by cutting off a scion and grafting it I may get hold of one that has not had its immunization distributed as it should be.
How can a sane man forgive himself for advocating inoculation by disease germs to cause immunization when by the use of health germs the health could be built so strong that the pathogenic germs would have no show.
Of course there is a degree of immunization taking place all the time.
The discovery of the possibility of producing a strongly bactericidal serum in the manner above described aroused the hope that such sera would prove of great value in passive immunization and serum treatment of bacterial diseases.
Immunization with spermatozoa or with epithelial or liver cells gives rise to amboceptors for these cells and also for red blood corpuscles and other body cells.
We call them by different names: Immunization or Radiology or what not; but the dreams which lure us into the adventures from which we learn are always at bottom the same.
Sealed in metal immunization suits, volunteers had descended to the plague world and reared the surviving children of the colonists until they were old enough to look out for themselves.
These experiments have assumed a great practical importance since they can also be applied to the immunization of an animal against transplanted cancer of its own species.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "immunization" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: antibody; antigen; immunity; immunization; resistance
