inoculant
- n a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease
- Deacon speculates that this "wimpy" HIV may even be a natural inoculant that protects its carriers against more virulent strains of the virus, much as infection with cowpox warded .
- Deacon speculates that this "wimpy" HIV may even be a natural inoculant that protects its carriers against more virulent strains of the virus, much as infection with cowpox warded .