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Species Specificity

Medical Definition:	Restriction of a characteristic or response to the members of one species; it usually refers to that property of the immune response which differentiates one species from another on the basis of antigen recognition, but the concept is not limited to immunology and is used loosely at levels higher than the species.
Guide Notes:	NIM; no qualif; may refer to phylum, class, order, family, genus or strain as well as species: TN 176; do not limit to immunol specificity

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