A patient is being treated for bacterial pneumonia. In the first stages of illness, the patient's dyspnea was accompanied by a high fever. Currently, the patient claims to be feeling better and is afebrile
The patient is most likely in which stage of the immune response?
A) Recognition stage
B) Proliferation stage
C) Response stage
D) Effector stage
Ans: D
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The immune response culminates with the effector stage, during which offending microorganisms are killed by the various actions of the immune system. The patient's improvement in health status is likely the result of this final stage in the immune response.
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