Gender differences in humans and animals reach beyond their physical features and include the physiological and metabolic traits that reflect immune function, as well as the susceptibility and resistance to disease. Females are predisposed because of their higher estrogen content and their differential responses can include the innate, humoral, and cellular immune systems. Thus, appropriately created and implemented preventive vaccines and immunologically targeted therapies that take both sexes into account should be adopted.
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