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[innate immune system, innate immune response, innate immune responses]
The term innate immunity refers to a system of primary reactions elicited by organisms in response to invading microorganisms, including Gram-positive bacteria and Gram-negative bacteria, DNA and RNA viruses, fungi, and protozoa without initially requiring the activation of any slower acting adaptive immunity effector mechanisms (adaptive immune cells (B-cells, T-cells), and other inflammatory cells) (Bals, 2000; Agerberth and Gudmundsson, 2006).
Cells of the innate immune system attack pathogens and eliminate them from the body by a variety of different mechanisms. Dendritic cells, granulocytes (neutrophils
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