In individuals that have once developed humoral immunity to an infectious or foreign antigen, the antibodies present in their body can mediate instant protection when the antigen re-enters.

Such antigen-specific antibodies can be readily detected in the serum. Long-term humoral immunity is, however, also critically dependent on the ability of memory B-cells to engage in a secondary antibody response upon re-exposure to the antigen.

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