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Innate Immunity

Innate immunity is the basic resistance to diseases that an individual has from the time of its birth. These mechanisms provide the first line of host defense and eliminate most of the microorganisms encountered by a healthy individual.

Innate immunity consists of the following four types of defensive barriers:
(1) anatomic,
(2) physiologic,
(3) endocytic and phagocytic, and
(4) inflammatory components.