0 a situation in which you are protected against disease or from legal action: --
He was granted immunity from prosecution because he confessed the names of the other spies.
The vaccination gives you immunity against the disease for up to six months.
1 protection against a particular disease or illness by particular substances in the blood --
Rowe was promised immunity from prosecution if he cooperated.
2 official protection from legal action, for example, not being judged in a court or punished for a crime: --
Most experts agree that acquired protective immunity against the asexual bloodstages has, in addition, some variant-transcending component(s).
However, in the village dog population the best fit was the nested model with no acquired protective immunity.
However, since the virus induces poor protective immunity, reinfection throughout life is common.
Waning of natural immunity occurs at a per capita rate, v, represented by a horizontal left to right movement along rows.
Age-associated alterations have also been observed in the cells responsible for innate immunity.
However, adolescents in our study had a lower level of immunity than has been reported for some other countries.
The increased levels of immunity in young children after the campaign will reduce the risk of exposure of susceptible women to rubella.
We do not know exactly what the levels of effective immunity are in the population.
