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Immunological memory underlies both immunization and resistance to reinfection, conferring a tremendous evolutionary advantage to vertebrates.
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.
Finally, a single dose of mebendazole (one of the two major BZAs) has variable efficacy against hookworm [26], and following treatment, hookworm reinfection to pre-treatment levels can occur within 4–12 months [27].
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.
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.