Question

Given below is a scheme of classifying immunity against human diseases. Fill up the types of immunity in the blanks 1-9.

Answer 1

The types of immunity are:
1. Innate immunity - It refers to inborn or natural immunity.
2. Acquired immunity - It develops during lifetime.
3. Specific immunity - It is for a particular infection.
4. Active acquired immunity - It provides natural resistance to all infections in general.
5. Passive acquired immunity - It is supplied from outside sources by means of readymade antibodies.
6. Natural acquired active immunity - It is resistance developed by a previous infection.
7. Artificial acquired active immunity - It is artificially introduced immunity by vaccination.
8. Natural acquired passive immunity - It is immunity passed from mother to the foetus through the blood.
9. Artificial acquired passive immunity - It is acquired by readymade antibodies or antiserum developed from animal serum.