immune evasion; antigenic escape
Medical term for a pathogen's ability to avoid detection or destruction by the host immune system, often through mutation or molecular mimicry.
The virus evades the host's defense mechanisms through immune evasion.
Antigenic variation of influenza viruses is one cause of immune evasion.
Compound of 免疫 (immunity) and 逃避 (evasion, escape). A modern medical term likely calqued from English 'immune evasion'.