Nobel Prize Winners in Immunology
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What was the Chinese custom of preventing smallpox development?

  • Injecting materials from smallpox blisters
  • Inhaling crusts from smallpox lesions (correct)
  • Wearing masks to prevent airborne transmission
  • Drinking fluids from infected individuals
  • Who introduced inoculation from smallpox blisters into Western medicine?

  • Chinese physician
  • Jenner
  • British ambassador's wife (correct)
  • Louis Pasteur
  • What discovery did Jenner make in 1798?

  • Related, yet safe procedure for smallpox prevention (correct)
  • Development of cowpox vaccine
  • Smallpox inoculation
  • Introduction of phagocytes in immune response
  • What did Louis Pasteur demonstrate regarding pathogens?

    <p>Possibility of attenuating pathogens for vaccine development</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In what year did Pasteur administer his first vaccine to a human?

    <p>1885</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the outcome of Jenner's experiment with the boy inoculated with pus from a milkmaid with cowpox?

    <p>No disease state followed the inoculation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was elucidated around 1900 regarding immunity?

    <p>Role of phagocytes and cellular immunity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How many Nobel Prizes have been awarded for immunology-related research since 1901?

    <p>19</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What term came into regular use in the 20th century regarding immune response?

    <p>Antigen</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was introduced in the 20th century regarding vaccine development?

    <p>Killed vaccines</p> Signup and view all the answers

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