immunity
Let an agent explain biological immunity and its types, describe vaccination and immune protection with evidence, address health questions at a general level, and separate the legal sense.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain biological immunity and its types, describe vaccination and immune protection with evidence, address health questions at a general level, and separate the legal sense.
The capacity of an organism to resist infection, toxins or disease through innate and adaptive defences, including immunity acquired after infection or vaccination, passive immunity from antibodies, plant immunity, tissue and mucosal immunity, and related concepts such as colonisation resistance and immunity to cancer; immunity is studied in immunology and underpins vaccination and public health, and the word also denotes legal exemption, a separate sense.
What it is for: Resistance to disease.
It can be explain innate and adaptive immunity; explain vaccination and acquired immunity; describe immunity in plants and other organisms; separate the legal sense.
Distinguishing features
Defence against disease
Innate and adaptive
Acquired by infection or vaccination
Species-wide concept
What it looks like
Not physical; a physiological capacity.
How it is recognised
Resistance to infection
Innate or acquired
Immunodeficiency is the reduction of immunity
Related models
is a kind of - category
is reduced in - disorder
is related to - vaccines
is related to - immunity to toxins
In practice
Families and kinds
innate immunity
adaptive immunity
active and passive acquired immunity
mucosal, tissue and herd immunity
plant and invertebrate immunity
Standards and regulation
WHO and national vaccination schedules
Clinical immunology guidelines
Regulation of vaccines and immunotherapies
Failure modes and hazards
Vaccine misinformation
Agents giving individual medical advice
Confusing senses
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.immunity
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Types Kinds of immunity.
Innate and adaptive.
Innate
Innate defences.
Innate
Innate immunity.
- How does innate immunity work, and which cells and barriers are involved? definition
- How does it trigger adaptive responses? definition
Adaptive
Adaptive immunity.
Adaptive
Adaptive immunity.
- How do antibodies and T cells provide specific and lasting immunity? definition
- What is immunological memory? definition
Vaccines Acquired immunity.
Evidence-based.
Vaccination
How vaccines work.
Vaccination
Vaccination.
- How do vaccines produce immunity, and what do schedules recommend here? provenance
- Is the user asking about their own vaccination decisions needing a clinician? boundary
Misinformation
Vaccine claims.
Misinformation
Misinformation.
- Is this claim about vaccines or immunity supported by evidence, according to health authorities? boundary
- How can it be addressed respectfully? action
Wider Beyond humans.
Immunity across life.
Plants
Plant and invertebrate immunity.
Plants
Plant immunity.
- How do plants and invertebrates defend against pathogens? definition
- How is plant immunity used in agriculture? provenance
Population
Herd immunity.
Population
Herd immunity.
- What is herd immunity, and what thresholds apply for this disease, according to epidemiologists? provenance
- What are the limits of the concept? boundary
Senses Disambiguation.
Immunity has a legal sense.
Legal
Legal immunity.
Legal
Legal sense.
- Is diplomatic, parliamentary or sovereign immunity meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Research
Immunology research.
Research
Research.
- What are current research directions, such as cancer immunity and immunotherapy? provenance
- Which findings are robust? boundary
What the second pass must settle
- Should vaccination be a separate entry?
- How should schedules be localised?
- How should the legal sense be split?