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Bookmark or Share- Innate immune system - Autoimmunity - NCBI BookshelfThe innate immune response is the first mechanism for host defense found in all multicellular organisms. The innate immune system is more ancient than the acquired or adaptive immune response, and it has developed and evolved to protect the host from the surrounding environment in which a variety of toxins and infectious agents including bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites are found (1).
- Natural Immunity: What It Is - Cleveland ClinicNatural immunity is protection against a specific infectious disease that you gain after having that disease. When you get sick, your body’s immune system revs up and mounts an attack to rid your body of the invader — typically, a virus or bacteria.
- Natural Immunity: What to Know - WebMDNatural immunity is a subtype of active immunity. Here’s what you need to know about how it’s acquired and how it protects you.
- In brief: How does the immune system work? - InformedHealth.org - NCBI ...The innate immune system provides a general defense against harmful germs and substances, so it’s also called the non-specific immune system. It mostly fights using immune cells such as natural killer cells and phagocytes (“eating cells”).
- Immunity Types | Vaccines & Immunizations | CDCNatural immunity is acquired from exposure to the disease organism through infection with the actual disease. Vaccine-induced immunity is acquired through the introduction of a killed or weakened form of the disease organism through vaccination.
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