superimmunity

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ immunity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsu.pɚɪˈmjuːnəti/

Noun

superimmunity (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The state of being exceptionally resistant to disease.
   • 1921, The Agricultural Gazette Vol-8 (1921), page 489:

     Under these conditions, inoculations with the virus cause a reaction fever without any internal symptoms of the disease and in this way generally, after 3 inoculations, superimmunity is assured against natural infection which lasts during the whole dairy period for milch cows.

   • 1987, Streptococcal Genetics, page 261:

     The goal of cloning superimmunity to the limited number of phages that attack some S. cremoris strains, in particular, is attractive. A prerequisite, however, is a concerted study of the biochemistry and molecular biology of phage repressor systems in the lactic streptococci.

   • 2023 March 14, “Nanobodies against SARS-CoV-2 reduced virus load in the brain of challenged mice and neutralized Wuhan, Delta and Omicron Variants”, in National Library of Medicine‎^[1]:

     Our results are consistent with those obtained by other groups screening camelid-derived libraries, where an impressive diversity in the Nb nucleotide sequence, specificity and neutralizing capacity was found, especially after successive immunizations to promote the development of superimmunity.