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... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Immunization
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Immunization
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Immunization
Investigative Techniques > Immunologic Techniques > Immunization
Immune System Phenomena > Immunomodulation > Immunotherapy > Immunization
Therapeutics > Biological Therapy > Immunomodulation > Immunotherapy > Immunization
... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Primary Prevention > Immunization
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Primary Prevention > Immunization
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Primary Prevention > Immunization
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Preferred term

Immunization  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Immunological Sensitization
  • Immunological Sensitizations
  • Immunological Stimulation
  • Immunological Stimulations
  • Immunologic Sensitization
  • Immunologic Stimulation
  • Immunostimulation
  • Sensitization, Immunologic
  • Sensitization, Immunological
  • Sensitizations, Immunological
  • Stimulation, Immunologic
  • Stimulation, Immunological
  • Stimulations, Immunological

Scope note

  • Deliberate stimulation of the host's immune response. ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION involves administration of ANTIGENS or IMMUNOLOGIC ADJUVANTS. PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION involves administration of IMMUNE SERA or LYMPHOCYTES or their extracts (e.g., transfer factor, immune RNA) or transplantation of immunocompetent cell producing tissue (thymus or bone marrow).

In other languages

  • immunisaatio

    Finnish

  • immunisatio
  • immunisointi
  • immunoprofylaksi
  • immuuniprofylaksi
  • Immunisering

    Swedish

  • Immunologisk sensibilisering
  • Immunologisk stimulering
  • Immunsensibilisering
  • Immunstimulering
  • Variolation
  • Variolisation

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D007114

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