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The resistance to infections is based on several defense lines erected at different levels of specificity: natural or nonspecific immunity, and adaptive, acquired, or specific immunity.
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Götze, D., da Silva, W.D. (1981). Immunity. In: Fundamentals of Immunology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0116-5_11
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