The nurse has admitted an 88-year-old male patient who has been diagnosed with urosepsis. What immune response predominates in sepsis?
A) Mitigated
B) Nonspecific
C) Cellular
D) Humoral
Ans: D
Feedback: Most immune responses to antigens involve both humoral and cellular responses, although only one predominates. For example, during transplantation rejection, the cellular response predominates, whereas in the bacterial pneumonias and sepsis, the humoral response plays the dominant role. Mitigated and nonspecific cell response is not noted in this situation.
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