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cross pro·tec·tion

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U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Cross Protection

    Protection conferred on a host by inoculation with one strain or component of a microorganism that prevents infection when later challenged with a similar strain. Most commonly the microorganism is a virus.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cross protection in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cross protection in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of cross protection in a Sentence

  1. David Mesher:

    There are lots of different HPV types and some types are closely related. Similar types tend to have some cross-protection.

  2. Myron Cohen:

    The degree of cross-protection from Delta and Omicron is not very well-known yet, it's a complicated answer generally, but for a simplistic one, the answer is, having natural infection provides some immunity and probably provides some cross-immunity, but the magnitude of the cross-immunity is not known.

  3. Michael Osterholm:

    The strain isn’t in the damn vaccine, and it’s giving cross protection.


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  • عبر الحمايةArabic
  • क्रॉस संरक्षणHindi
  • הגנה צולבתHebrew
  • クロスプロテクションJapanese

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