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Innate Immunity, Adaptive Immunity and the Lines of Defence

Nursing immunology lecture defining immunity and its types, herd immunity, and the three lines of host defence: physical barriers and phagocytes, inflammation and interferons, and the cell-mediated and humoral response of B and T lymphocytes.

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