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What does passive immunity mean?

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Noun
  1. (immunology) The translocation of active humoral immunity from one individual to another in the form of custom-made antibodies.
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Vaccination, on the other hand, imparts passive immunity that is short lived.
A newborn baby acquires passive immunity from its mother through the placenta.
In Berlin, Koch's assistants had discovered the principle of passive immunity and antitoxins.
Much more commonly, anti-tetanus serum has been widely used to confer passive immunity after potentially contaminated minor injuries.
New approaches to effectively vaccinate newborns so they produce their own immune responses when passive immunity wanes are highly sought.
A veterinary medicinal product administered to animals in order to produce active or passive immunity or to diagnose the state of immunity.

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