Name | Description |
Antigen | A foreign substance that elicits an immune response. |
Co-infection | Simultaneous infection of a host by multiple strains. |
Cross immunity | A partial immune protection against a strain. If two parallel strains of a virus are circulating in a population, then individuals who have already been infected by one strain may have partial immunity or lessened susceptibility to the other strain. |
Herd immunity | Resistance of the entire population to the spread of an infectious disease due to the immunity of a high proportion of that population. |
Super infection | The process of a strain taking over a host already infected by a different strain. In general, it refers to those affected with one of the strains that cannot be infected with others. |
Perfect vaccine | A vaccine uniformly and completely effective against all strains of a pathogen. It further signifies vaccines that can be treated as a complete safeguard against the targeted strains. |
IDM | Intermediate defense measure |
PDS | Primary disease strain |
SDS | Secondary disease strain |
EGT | Evolutionary Game Theory |
DFE | Disease Free Equilibrium |
EE | Endemic Equilibrium |