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White blood cells attack, engulfs and kills pathogens. Various types of white blood cells exist and each one is specialized on killing different types of pathogens. There are white cells that kill pathogens that cause acute infections while others target pathogens that cause chronic infections. The proportion of white cells found on examinationod blood sample could suggest the nature of infection we are dealing with.
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∙ 10y agoYour white blood cells are the blood cells that fight infections and disease. Infections are caused by fungi, viruses and bacteria. You white blood cells produce these things called antibodies which sort of eat up the microbes inside of your body.
Microbes cause disease when they are able to reproduce in the body. They produce harmful substances called toxins, and damage tissues and organs. We say that someone who has harmful disease-causing microbes in them is infected.
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∙ 13y agoThe white blood cell (WBC)
There are five different types of WBC.
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∙ 13y agoThe white blood cell attacks bacteria in the blood stream
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∙ 8y agowhite blood cells
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∙ 9y agoWhite Blood Cells
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What cell kills infections?
Phagocytes, natural killer cells, B and T lymphocytes.
What does a wight blood cell do?
If you mean a white blood cell, it fights any infections or diseases.
What cell helps the body to fight infections and foreing substances?
The white blood cell.
Which WHite Blood Cell kills parasitic worms?
Eosinophils
What cell type increases in number during prolonged infections?
White blood cells generally increases during infections.
What are the human body cells in your body?
We have a different kind of cell for every part of your body.We have the white cell which kills germs.The red blood cell makes the blood.
What is a type of white blood cell that sorrounds and kills invading cells?
Macrophage
What cell type kills parasitic worms?
it is the white blood cells
How do Viral infections reproduce?
It has to have a host cell to reproduce then it kills that cell becausethere are so many viral disease in side the host cell. The Viral disease will continue you to kill host cell until you get an antibiotic
What does it mean when your white cell count is up and everything else is down?
When the white blood cell count is less than 4,000 per cubic mm, you are said to have low white blood cell count. You have such low white blood cell count in viral infections, chlamydia infections, rickettsial infections, in malaria and typhoid fever. Incidentally they are all the infections inside your cells. White blood cells can not attack them with out killing your body cells.
What term means a white blood cell that surrounds and kills invading cells?
A macrophage is the type of white blood cell that surrounds and kills invading cells.
What does a rabies cell look like?
white but that's usual for all infections all diseases and infections turn out to be white blood cells.
