A patient arrives in a clinic and is diagnosed with a helminth infection. Which of the following leukocytes would you expect to be elevated in response to this infection? Choose one
Basophils
Eosinophils
Neutrophils
B cells
T cells
Ans- Eosinophils
Helminths are worn like parasites that survive by feeding on a living host to gain nourushmnou and protection, sometimes resulting in illness of host. Eosinophils are capable of phagocytosis and effective when antibodies bind to target and form an antigen- antibody complex. High count of eosinophils are typical of patients with allergies, parasitic worm infection and some autoimmune disease. Eosinophils kill helminths worms in-vitro by antibody or complement dependent mechanism.
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