A nurse has admitted a patient who has been diagnosed with urosepsis. What immune response predominates in sepsis?
A) Mitigated
B) Nonspecific
C) Cellular
D) Humoral
Ans: D
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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. Neither mitigated nor nonspecific cell response is noted in this situation.
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