Exam 25: Immunization and Vaccines

Suppose you are a graduate student working in a research laboratory that focuses on the development of new vaccines.Your faculty mentor asks you to play a key role in the development of a vaccine for a novel pathogen by using reverse vaccinology.Your project design should involve:

An effective method of acquiring immunity is through the method of community immunity.

Match the type of immunity with its definition. -Passive immunity

Human immune serum globulin is made from the pooled serum of thousands of donors.

An adverse reaction to a vaccine can involve hypersensitivity or an allergic reaction.

Match the term with its definition. -Toxoid vaccine

Trastuzumab,an antibody used in the treatment of breast cancer with an overexpression of the HER2 marker,is an example of a

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is an example of adoptive immunity.

Match the term with its definition. -Recombinant protein vaccine

A patient with leukemia is scheduled for a bone marrow transplant.Which type of immunity is provided via this procedure?

Match the term with its definition. -Inactivated vaccine

A student receives a vaccine for measles before starting elementary school.This would stimulate:

A mother provides immunity to her unborn child in the womb via which process?

Hypersensitivity responses to vaccines have been known to develop by all of the following mechanisms except for:

Match the type of immunity with its definition. -Active immunity

Match the term with its definition. -Attenuation

Why is alum incorporated into many of the vaccines used today?

Passive immunization with RhoGAM can be used to prevent hemolytic disease of the newborn in infants born to Rh-negative mothers because

Passive immunity involves the activation of IgD.

The first widely used vaccine,promoted by Edward Jenner,was designed to prevent what disease?