Secondary immune response
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- The secondary immune response is one of the most important features of immune systems.
- A SECONDARY IMMUNE RESPONSE IS MORE POWERFUL THAN THE PRIMARY RESPONSE, PRODUCING ANTIBODIES SO QUICKLY THAT THE DISEASE NEVER GETS A CHANCE TO DEVELOP.
- This secondary immune response is the direct result of memory cells produced during the primary immune response.
- Moreover, the secondary immune response is essentially a catalog of all the foreign material that the human has come in contact with over the last several years.
- The principle of vaccination is to induce a "primed" state in the vaccinated subject so that, following exposure to a pathogen, a rapid secondary immune response is generated leading to the accelerated elimination of the organism and protection from clinical disease.
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