Why does it take approximately a week after infection for the benefits of an adaptive immune response to start to be felt?
What will be an ideal response?
Before the establishment of an effector population of lymphocytes, several events must occur: (1) specific recognition of pathogen by lymphocyte receptors (clonal selection); (2) proliferation of pathogen-specific lymphocytes to expand responding populations (clonal expansion); and (3) differentiation into effector lymphocytes with the resulting establishment of an organized adaptive immune response.
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