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Immunological memory underlies both immunization and resistance to reinfection, conferring a tremendous evolutionary advantage to vertebrates.
As previously mentioned, recovery from disease confers lifelong immunity to reinfection, and is a rationale for the development and implementation of a vaccine for the prevention of symptomatic or serious forms of the disease.
After 3 days of incubation at 37°C, bacteria from the resulting colonies were harvested, suspended in Middlebrook 7H9 media containing 10 μg kanamycin/mL and 0.05% (v/v) Tween 80, and pooled for reinfection of THP-1 macrophages.
The enhanced replication of virus seen in dengue hemorrhagic fever is generally seen upon reinfection by dengue virus of a serotype different from previous infections and is believed to be mediated by antibodies against viral structural proteins: so called antibody dependent enhancement of infection, or ADE.
Interestingly, the single drug-resistant isolate identified from this study reverted to a sensitive phenotype upon reinfection, even with suboptimal antiviral treatment.