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| acellular pertussis vaccine |
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| A vaccine that uses proteins from the microorganism rather than the whole cell to stimulate the process of active immunity. |
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| Stimulation of antibody production without causing clinical disease. |
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| Proteins capable of responding to specific infectious agents; proteins capable of reacting to a specific antigen. |
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| A foreign substance that triggers an immune system response. |
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| An illness that is transmitted directly or indirectly from one person to another. |
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| A vaccine in which an altered organism is joined with another substance to increase the immune response, such as the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, meningococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccine, and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine. |
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| Illness passed from one person or animal to another by contact with body fluids. |
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| Monitoring patterns of disease occurrence from the cases of infectious and communicable diseases reported by healthcare workers to state health officials. |
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| Pyrogens that are released in response to an invasive organism and travel through the circulatory system to the hypothalamus, where they trigger the production of prostaglandins. |
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| Immunization of healthy children so that pathogens do not have hosts to reproduce and survive, enabling infants not yet fully immunized and children with medical contraindications to immunizations to be indirectly protected. |
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| The passage of an infectious disease involving survival of pathogens outside humans before they invade a new host. |
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| Illness caused by a microorganism that is commonly communicated from one host (human or otherwise) to another. |
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| A vaccine that contains a killed microorganism that is still capable of inducing the human body to produce antibodies to the disease. |
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| A vaccine that contains the microorganism in a live but attenuated, or weakened, form. |
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| An infection acquired in a healthcare agency, not present at the time of entrance to the agency. |
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| Rigid hyperextension of the entire body; hyperextension of the head and neck to relieve discomfort. |
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| The emergency and worldwide spread of an influenza or other viral or bacterial pathogen that causes significantly increased morbidity and mortality. |
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| Immunity produced through introduction of specific antibodies to the disease, which are usually obtained from the blood or serum of immune persons and animals; does not confer lasting immunity. |
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| The engulfment and destruction of microorganisms, dead cells, and foreign particles. |
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| Extreme exhaustion, unable to make any effort. |
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| A vaccine in which an organism has been genetically altered. |
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| Lethargy, poor perfusion, hypoventilation or hyperventilation, and cyanosis. |
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| A toxin that has been treated (by heat or chemical) to weaken its toxic effects but retain its antigenicity. |
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| passive immunity that is transferred from mother to infant. |
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| Insects or animals that transmit infectious organisms by their biting humans. |
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| Infectious disease transmitted to humans from an insect or animal host. |
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