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Administration of vaccine to produce active immunity

Known as: Active Immunizations, Active Immunization, Immunization, Active 
Deliberate stimulation of a host's immune response via administration of antigens or immunologic adjuvants.
National Institutes of Health

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Active immunityCowpoxImmunityPublic health service

Broader (2)

ImmunizationInfectious disease prevention / control

Narrower (9)

Measles vaccinationMeasles-mumps-rubella vaccinationPoliomyelitis vaccinationRabies vaccination

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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Targeting of alpha-hemolysin by active or passive immunization decreases severity of USA300 skin infection in a mouse model.
Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections are predominantly those affecting skin and… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Evaluation of lipopolysaccharide and capsular polysaccharide as subunit vaccines against experimental melioidosis.
Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, which is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in endemic… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Vaccination against the HER-2/neu oncogenic protein.
The HER-2/neu oncogenic protein is a well-defined tumor antigen. HER-2/neu is a shared antigen among multiple tumor types… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Dendritic cells transduced by multiply deleted HIV-1 vectors exhibit normal phenotypes and functions and elicit an HIV-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response in vitro.
Dendritic cells (DCs) genetically modified to continually express and present antigens may be potent physiologic adjuvants for… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Therapeutic passive vaccination against chronic Lyme disease in mice.
Passive and active immunization against outer surface protein A (OspA) has been successful in protecting laboratory animals… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Vaccination with syngeneic, lymphoma-derived immunoglobulin idiotype combined with granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor primes mice for a protective T-cell response.
The idiotype of the Ig expressed by a B-cell malignancy (Id) can serve as a unique tumor-specific antigen and as a model for… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
Relationship between virulence and immunity as revealed in recent studies of the F1 capsule of Yersinia pestis.
Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, possesses multiple virulence determinants encoded on its three plasmids and on… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Expression of the gene coding for a human mucin in mouse mammary tumor cells can affect their tumorigenicity.
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Effect of alloimmunization and heteroimmunization with zonae pellucidae on fertility in rabbits.
The effect of active immunization with porcine or rabbit zonae pellucidae on the fertility of rabbits was studied. A total of 28… 
Review
1971
Review
1971
Vaccination against the canine hookworm diseases.
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