The phrase "a type of immunity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different forms or categories of immunity, particularly in medical or legal contexts.
Example: "Vaccination provides a type of immunity that helps protect individuals from infectious diseases."
Alternatives: "a form of immunity" or "a category of immunity".
The Constitution protects Congress from interference in its operations by both the executive branch and the judiciary, providing a type of immunity to members from having to answer questions in court, responding to subpoenas or being prosecuted with evidence of actions involving the legislative process.
At that time, the territory of Macedonia had gathered mafias who enjoyed special treatment, a type of "immunity" accounted for by the idleness of Europe and the authorities of neighboring countries.
The CRISPR-Cas system is thought to be a general stress response, including responses that provide a type of immunity and those that are pathogenic to the host (Louwen et al. 2014).
Another layer of defence is provided by resistance (R) proteins that detect these effector proteins initiating effector-triggered immunity (ETI), a type of resistance typified by the hypersensitive response (HR) associated with host cell death [ 22].
It is a type of adaptive immunity in bacteria and archaea, which is acquired in response to exposure of foreign genetic material (6).
The coughing part is driven by the virus while neuroinflammation or some other process (in humans) represents a type of innate immunity.
The intermediate resistance to the fungal infection presented by C57BL/6 mice, associated with the development of a mixed type of immunity, was replaced with susceptibility to infection and a Th2-polarized immune response, in galectin-3-deficient (gal3−/−) mice.
In this study we systematically identified several new polyimmunity loci and further extended this concept to include homogeneous and heterogeneous polyimmunity loci: The homogeneous polyimmunity loci are defined as those which are dominated by a single type of immunity protein e.g. several tandem paralogs of the SUKH superfamily [ 18].
The comparison of IgG levels between the ACHP and UMA groups, respectively resistant and susceptible to the clinical symptoms associated with P. falciparum infection, thus aimed to determine whether an 'anti-disease' type of immunity was associated with any of the antibody activity measured here.
Successful vaccination requires a number of components; namely, a viable tumour antigen, a feasible vaccine methodology and an understanding of the type of immunity required to control the tumour.
It will be interesting to determine whether these sex-specific differences in the type of immunity, i.e. immune deployment in females and immune maintenance in males are a general phenomenon.
