passive immunization

But such antibody therapy, known as passive immunization, is also risky.

One has to match the two and use active and passive immunisation when necessary.

Prevention of hepatitis A through active or passive immunization.

Currently, antibodies can be used for passive immunization.

It is one of the few diseases which medicine could attack before the Second World War, by passive immunization.

Antibodies for passive immunization, e.g., to treat a virus infection.

Newborns are probably protected by passive immunisation.

Passive immunization therapy requires monthly injections every winter.

This process is called passive immunization and it has been used successfully against hepatitis, rabies and other viruses.

At the prenatal and neonatal stages of life, the presence of antibodies is provided by passive immunization from the mother.

Studies have not determined the relative benefit and risks of passive immunization for SARS.

Passive immunization.

Different methods for acute treatment of the disease have been shown to not be very successful; passive immunisation after emergence of symptoms is probably without effect.

Possible strategies include vaccination against these proteins (active immunisation), or treatment with previously created antibodies (passive immunisation).

Passive immunization is when these elements are introduced directly into the body, instead of when the body itself has to make these elements.

Natural antibodies have been defined as antibodies that are produced without any previous infection, vaccination, other foreign antigen exposure or passive immunization.

Passive immunization is where pre-synthesized elements of the immune system are transferred to a person so that the body does not need to produce these elements itself.

Passive immunization occurs physiologically, when antibodies are transferred from mother to fetus during pregnancy, to protect the fetus before and shortly after birth.

Passive immunization has been successful in establishing protection from SARS-CoV, suggesting an important role for neutralizing antibodies.

If the person has not yet come into contact with the microbe and has no pre-made antibodies for defense, as in passive immunization, the person becomes immunized.

The American strategy is known as active immunization; the European strategy is known as passive immunization, in part because it is not long lasting.

Reduction in levels of free Aβ in the circulation has been demonstrated to lead to diminution in brain plaque burden following active or passive immunization [72].

An alternative to VariZIG for passive immunization is IVIG, 400 mg/kg, administered once.

After the failure of AN-1792, Wyeth and Elan worked to develop a safer vaccine and also focused on another form of immunotherapy: passive immunization.

Instead of vaccinating patients with a strand of amyloid protein and letting them form their own antibodies, passive immunization injects pre-made antibodies directly into patients.