reactivation (redirected from cross reactivation)

reactivation

to become active after a period of quiescence or, as in bacterial and viral infections, latency.

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cross reactivation

in immunology, the capacity of an antibody made in response to one antigen including microorganisms to recognize other, different antigens; the two antigens share common antigenic sites (epitopes).

multiplicity reactivation

in virology, a population of viruses that has been inactivated, say by irradiation, may when introduced into a cell at high multiplicity of infection, replicate because of complementation between different member viruses in the inactivated population.