Question

difference between immunity and resistance?

Answer 1

When someone is immune, they are not affected, you are immune to the effects of magnets. When someone is resistant, they are affected, but they overcome the affects. You are resistant to the wind.

Answer 2



What is the difference between immunity and resistance?

In terms of medicine. Thanks in advance.

5 answers · Medicine 

 Best Answer

immunity 
the condition of being immune; the protection against infectious disease conferred either by the immune response generated by immunization or previous infection or by other nonimmunologic factors.