Quotes About Antigens

Chlamydia, today´s most common cause of venereal disease, does the equivalent of hiding in the police station. Schistosomes of the mansoni type go a step further and essentially steal police uniforms. These parasites, a serious cause of liver disease in Asia, pick up blood-group antigens so that they may look to the immune system like our own normal blood cells.

process called cytokine storm. It's when the body's immune system senses the virus antigens and then goes berserk, releasing a bevy of extraordinarily damaging hormonelike proteins.

The Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 was a myxovirus. It killed twenty million people. Viruses mutate every few months. The antigens on their surface change so that they're unrecognizable to the immune system. That's why seasonals are necessary.

Second, there are vaccines which contain killed micro-organisms. These vaccines may contain an intact (but dead) organism or a sample pack of specific antigens.

The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.

isoantigens—antigens within the same species.