A patient's primary immunodeficiency disease is characterized by the inability of white blood cells to initiate an inflammatory response to infectious organisms. What is this patient's most likely diagnosis?
A) Chronic granulomatous disease
B) Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
C) Hyperimmunoglobulinemia E syndrome
D) Common variable immunodeficiency
Ans: C
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In one rare type of phagocytic disorder, hyperimmunoglobulinemia E syndrome (formerly known as Job syndrome), white blood cells cannot initiate an inflammatory response to infectious organisms. The other listed health problems do not have this pathology.
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