'functional immunity' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a type of immunity that is related to the performance of specific functions. For example, "The civil servant had functional immunity from prosecution in this case."
To determine if these enhanced T cell responses translated to functional immunity, we challenged immunized mice with an aggressive dose of 1 × 10 B16 tumor cells expressing OVA.
If the MSP-119 immune responses reflect functional immunity, something that was not directly determined in this study and is currently uncertain, uphill populations, particularly children ≤ 15 years of age, may be at a higher risk of (severe) clinical disease.
In a few patients with PDAC the blood MDCs and PDCs were almost gone indicating that this disease can exert systemic impairing effects on immune cells important for maintaining a functional immunity.
Furthermore, few studies have tested whether parental immune experience influences offspring immune responsiveness rather than solely baseline antibody titres; quantifying some measure of functional immunity may better indicate the fitness consequences of parentally derived immunity (Heeb et al. 1998; Gasparini et al. 2002; Grindstaff et al. 2003).
The overall functional immunity was tested by experimental challenge with live virulent Aeromonas hydrophila.
Disease resistance against live, virulent A. hydrophila was performed to assess the overall functional immunity.
Should there be a different interpretation of the extent of functional immunities for lawyers from the ICTR, that is a grey area we are ready to argue legally and there is no standing jurisprudence to that effect.
Our findings also highlight the association between functional immune status at the time of HBV infection and subsequent HBV serologic outcome, and suggest that improved functional anti-HBV immunity through maintenance of higher CD4 cell counts and increased use of HAART would likely improve serologic HBV outcomes in HIV-infected individuals.
These data provide evidence for both a better understanding of the nature of humoral mucosal responses after HIV1 infection and the development of strategies to induce desirable functional mucosal immunity for preventing HIV transmission.
Detailed data can thus provide crucial information about a number of vital parameters such as functional herd immunity.
Intervention outcomes in ages following the last drug dose schedule are highly dependent on transmission levels and on how treatment affects infection dynamics, mainly the time for which the drug effect lasts, the drug induced decreased risk of acquiring an infection, and the ability to acquire functional clinical immunity while treated.
