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Why does a doctor administer tetanus antitoxin and not a tetanus vaccine to a child injured in a road side accident with bleeding wound?Explain

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Tetanus is deadly disease to which quick immune response is required, so doctor directly inject the performed antibodies (antitoxin).
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  2. Differentiate innate and acquired immuity.

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  3. differentiate between active immuntiy and passive immuntiy.

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  4. Name the primary and secondary lymphoid organs.

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  8. Write the role of macrophages in providing immunity to humans.

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  9. Name the causative organism and symptoms of common cold?

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  10. Define disease and mention its types.

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  11. What is the role of histamine in inflammatory response?Name few drugs ...

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  12. Define auto-immune diseases.Give two examples.

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  13. Name and explain the type of barrier of innate immunity system,which i...

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  14. A boy of ten years had chicken-pox.He is not expected to have the same...

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  15. What is it that prevents a child to suffer from a disease he/she is va...

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  16. Define the term health.Mention any two ways of maintaining it.

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  17. Why does a doctor administer tetanus antitoxin and not a tetanus vacci...

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  18. Describe the role of lymph nodes in providing immunity.

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  19. Why is an antibody represented as H(2)L(2)?

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  20. Expand AMIS and CMIS?

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