It may not even be the one-in-10,000 risk of irreversible lifelong paralysis, known as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.

Collectively, therefore, protective immunological memory may depend largely on persistent or reencountered antigen that keeps sufficient effector T cells activated and sufficient B cells maturing ...

Zinkernagel asserts that “if an unprimed host survives an initial infection, the host does not really need immunological memory to survive the second infection” 3. This conclusion is based ...

Olga Rivera Ballesteros from the Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM) at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH) is ...

Meanwhile, the adaptive system, consisting of T and B cells, responds more slowly, targeting specific antigens and generating long-lived memory cells to enable a quicker, stronger secondary response.