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Is a White blood cell a defense mechanism for infectious disease?
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Yes. It kills almost all diseases which enter into a person's blood stream.
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What infectious disease attacks the body's white blood cells?
AIDS attack white blood cells, but it isn't infectious. It is inherited.
Which type of blood cell has a major role in immunity to infectious disease?
White blood cell (WBC) has a major role. It fights with the germs of infections in the body.
Why are white blood cells fused with cancer cells to produce hybridomas?
because these cell also produced huge amount of antibodies for defense against disease. for example the cancer cell and the white cell. it produces antibodies
What is the importance of capsules in causing disease?
Capsaules have an important role in disease causing properties (virulence) of some bacteria. Bacteria which have this structure can escape body defense mechanisms such as white blood cells (which are unable to destroy them through a process known as phagocytosis).
Which blood cell protect the body?
White blood cells, because they are actually a cell of the immune system and they defend the body against infectious diseases and foreign materials. When white blood cells are fighting against a disease or foreign material, their numbers increase until the material is gone.
What infectious disease attacks the body's white blood cells?
AIDS attack white blood cells, but it isn't infectious. It is inherited.
Why are vaccination a particularly effective method for controlling infectious disease?
Because vaccines are the disease ,but dead so your white blood cells get ready when the actual disease comes. It is NOT a treatment. It is NOT a prevention.
The body's primary defense against infections and disease is provided by?
White blood cells
What are the jobs of the white blood cells to the immune system?
They defend the body against both infectious disease and foreign materials.
Which type of blood cell has a major role in immunity to infectious disease?
White blood cell (WBC) has a major role. It fights with the germs of infections in the body.
Why do rich Tudor woman want white skin?
In Tudor times woman wanted white skin to cover up the infectious disease known as small pox
What human cell uses phagocytosis as a mechanism of defense?
Leukocytes (white blood cells) capture and destroy microorganisms by phagocytosis.
What is the difference between white blood cell and other cells?
White blood cells, are cells of the immune system defending the body against both infectious disease and foreign materials.
Explain how immunization aids in the defense against disease?
Immunization aids in the defense against disease by this theory: "Fighting fire with fire": By giving you the bacteria of the specific disease, that which causes it, how can you then contract it?
Is measles infectious or non infectious?
Measles are infact pathogenic. As it is an infectious disease and the pathogens are infectious viruses and the leucocytes/leukocytes and phagocytes (white blood cells) can't cope with them.
Why do microorganisms make us feel ill when they enter your body?
because it is not natural to the body hence trigger a defense mechanism build in our boody - white blood.
The humans body's defense against disease is directly related to?
directly related to white blood cells
