Example Sentences

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Some species are natural reservoirs for JEV, and young, nonimmune birds in particular can act as virus factories, transmitting it to uninfected mosquitoes.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 21, 2023

For instance, a person who has recently produced a successful immune response against a particular disease agent can donate blood to a nonimmune recipient and confer temporary immunity through antibodies in the donor’s blood serum.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

For example, nonimmune cells have genes that allow them to release cytokines and chemokines, chemical messengers that summon an immune response.

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2021

Other countries, including Italy, Germany and Britain, have contemplated allowing only people with covid-19 antibodies to resume ordinary life, thus splitting the population into immune and nonimmune groups.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2020

Another instance in which it is difficult to figure the injury done by the ticks is in the case of death of nonimmune cattle in the tick-free pastures of the South.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry