Glossary of HIV/AIDS Terms
This glossary contains 1,600 terms and is maintained by the editors of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS.
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specific immunity (aka adaptive immunity): antigen-specific immune defense carried out by lymphocytes (e.g., B cells and T cells), which respond to specific pathogens; the two types of specific immunity are cell-mediated (Th1 response) and humoral (antibody-mediated, or Th2 response). Compare with nonspecific immunity.