Learning Objectives for "The Adaptive Immune System: Ways That Antibodies Defend the Body - Neutralization of Viruses"

After completing this section you should be able to perform the following objectives.

1.* Discuss how antibodies defend the body by way of neutralizing viruses. (Include what classes or isotypes of immunoglobulins are involved, the role of the Fab portion of the antibody, the role, if any, of the Fc portion of the antibody, and the role of any complement proteins, if any, involved.)

2. Briefly describe 2 different ways viruses may resist neutralizing antibodies.

(*) = common theme throughout the course

TPS Question: Neutralization of Viruses

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Gary E. Kaiser, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
The Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville Campus
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Based on a work The Grapes of Staph at https://cwoer.ccbcmd.edu/science/microbiology/index_gos.html.