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hyperimmune
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hyperimmune /hy·per·im·mune/ (hi″per-ĭ-mūn´) possessing very large quantities of specific antibodies in the serum.
hyperimmune
[-imyo̅o̅n′]
Etymology: Gk, hyper + L, immunis, freedom
having a greater-than-normal immunity because of an unusual abundance of antibodies.

hyperimmune
possessing very large quantities of specific antibodies in the serum.

hyperimmune serum
serum especially prepared for temporary passive protection or treatment of animals. Commercial preparation is by repeated injections of the selected antigens.

hyperimmune
adjective Referring to an immune state characterized by an abundance of one or more immunoglobulins, due to repeated exposure to one or a limited palette of microorganisms


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For immunohistochemical detection of TBEV antigens, a noncommercial rabbit polyclonal hyperimmune serum (dilution 1:1,000) was used as described previously (3).
For the microneutralization assay, 50 [micro]L of heat-inactivated human and animal control hyperimmune serum samples were serially twofold diluted in 10% FBS-DMEM in triplicate wells.
The RVFV assay used polyclonal hyperimmune ascitic fluid raised against RVFV strain Zagazig 501 as the capture antibody and rabbit hyperimmune serum raised against RVFV Zagazig 501 as the detector antibody.
 
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