0 the process of protecting a person or animal from an infectious disease by putting a substance into the body that makes it produce antibodies (= proteins in the blood that fight disease): --
With the use of immunizations in babies, the mortality rate has dropped significantly.
Immunization gives people the ability to resist infection temporarily or permanently.
During these years no mass immunization against influenza was conducted in these communities.
It must be stressed that most persons who were pneumococcal-vaccinated also had influenza immunization (99 %).
Families brought their children to the clinic for health checks and immunizations on a voluntary basis.
As knowledge grew, intervention became routinized and selective immunization began to replace general restriction as the main method of combating disease.
Therefore, immunization history was obtained from school records.
Immunization against blood-stage rodent malaria using purified parasite antigen.
The variability in rubella epidemiology has important implications for the design of immunization programmes.
These were also the attributes that the model predicted would have the greatest effect on immunization uptake.
