An 88-year-old male patient is suffering from urosepsis. The immune response which predominates is the:
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, in bacterial pneumonias and sepsis, the humoral response plays the dominant role; during transplantation rejection, the cellular response predominates. Mitigated and nonspecific cell response is not noted in this situation.
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