immunogenicadj.

1931 Lancet 21 Feb. 412/1 The aim of vaccine therapy should be to induce an immunogenic response on the part of tissues other than those actually invaded by the infecting organisms.

1971 Nature 4 June 286/3 Why cells become more immunogenic after neuraminidase treatment is not yet clear.

1981 R. N. Hardy Endocrine Physiol. x. 142 After birth, the development of the capacity to respond to an immunogenic stimulus depends on a functioning thymus gland as well as the other lympho-epithelial tissues of the body.

2005 Independent 13 Apr. 8/3 MMR vaccine has been checked to make sure each component is immunogenic (produces the required level of immunity) including the form used in the UK.

1944 Science 16 June 497/2 Minute amounts of the latter..exhibited marked antityphoid immunogenicity.

2002 H. P. Noteborn et al. in K. T. Atherton Genetically Modified Crops 80 N-linked oligosaccharides may have a substantial impact on the immunogenicity of glycoproteins, as N-glycans are suspected to play a certain role in the adverse food reactions of hypersensitized patients.