Fundamental principles of immunization by Wellcome Library

Publication date 1961
Usage Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United StatesCreative Commons Licensebync
Topics Immunity, Bacterial Vaccines, Viral Vaccines, Disease control, Immunity, Bacterial Vaccines, Viral Vaccines, Medical.
Publisher Written, directed and produced by Dr. Dennis Ward. Photographed by David A. Holmes
Digitizing sponsor Technical and Scientific Films Ltd. in association with the Film Producer's Guild
This film 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. 6 segments
Identifier Fundamentalprinciplesofimmunization-wellcome
Location UK
Rights Wellcome Trust 1961
Run time 0:40:00