Fundamental principles of immunization.

Date:
1961
  • Film

About this work

Description

Presents the basic principles underlying active, passive and transferred immunity in man and animals, and explains the production and modus operandi of various types of vaccines and antisera. Topics discussed include the acquisition of natural and artificial immunity, the phenomenon of primary and secondary stimuli in establishing active immunity, transferred immunity in new-born children and animals, toxoids and killed bacterial vaccines, and living attenuated and killed virus vaccines.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1961.

Physical description

10 film reels (40 min. each) : sound, color

Contributors

Creator/production credits

Technical and Scientific Films Ltd. in association with the Film Producer's Guild -- writer, director and producer, Dr. Denis Ward; photographer, David A. Holmes

Copyright note

Wellcome Trust.

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