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Adaptive Immunity: Humoral and Cell-Mediated Responses

Nursing immunology lecture on the adaptive immune system taken up when innate defences fail: humoral immunity through antibodies from B lymphocytes, cell-mediated immunity through T lymphocytes and macrophages, the primary and secondary response, and active and passive immunization with the tetanus toxoid, rabies and hepatitis B vaccines as examples.

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