The nurse differentiates that passive acquired immunity means that the antibodies were:
1. acquired from outside the host and in-stilled in the host.
2. manufactured in response to a disease in the host.
3. innately acquired because of being born a human being.
4. cell-mediated inside the host.
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Gamma globulin injections provide passive acquired immunity. The antibodies that are in-jected have been produced by another host, collected, fused in the mixture, and injected into a separate host. This gives the host a passive acquired immunity that only lasts for 2 to 3 months.
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