Question

The antivenom used to treat a venomous snake bite is an antibody produced in an animal such as a horse. Suppose these antibodies are injected into a patient who has been bitten by a venomous snake. How would you classify the resulting humoral immunity?

Answer 1

Passive artificially acquired immunity

Step-by-step explanation:

Passive immunity is the immunity in which antibodies that fight against the antigen is acquired from outside the body. The passive immunity can be divided into natural passive immunity and artificially acquired passive immunity.

In natural immunity naturally produced antibody from mother goes into baby through breastfeeding and in Passive artificially acquired immunity the antibodies are synthesized artificially in some animals and introduced in the person.

For example, antivenoms are passive artificially acquired immunity because in this case the antibodies from horse serum which was raised against that venom is introduced into the person who is bitten by the venomous snake.