The concept of passive immunization is a simple one: we administer infection-fighting antibodies directly to the right people. Over the past century, various passive immunization strategies have ...

In groups fifty years of age and over, especially in females, greater efforts must be made by all concerned so that immunization itself will become truly universal, since passive or passive-active ...

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases that include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), scrapie in sheep, and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease ...

Passive immunization provides a powerful strategy to achieve protection without many side effects. However, in our opinion, mucosal tolerance might provide the best therapeutic applicability ...

At AstraZeneca, our approach to tackling the most challenging infectious diseases and future pandemics encompasses two complementary strategies — active and passive immunization — so that ...