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 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>1885 (A)</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 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was elucidated around 1900 regarding immunity?

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

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

<p>19 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Antigen (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

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