If You Come Down with a Streptococcal Bacterial Infection That

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Multiple Choice

If you come down with a streptococcal bacterial infection that results in your getting strep throat, you are likely to suffer from a fever, sore throat, headache, nausea, and even vomiting.At least one of these symptoms may be useful to your recovery because

• A) the high temperature of a fever is an adaptive immune response that can bring phagocytes to the area.
• B) the high temperature of a fever is an innate immune response that can inhibit bacterial growth.
• C) the pain of the sore throat causes prostaglandins to be secreted as part of the innate immune response, decreasing the sensitivity to pain.
• D) the pain of the sore throat causes prostaglandins to be secreted as part of the adaptive immune response, mobilizing phagocytes to the area.
• E) vomiting is part of an adaptive immune response, reducing the bacterial load of your stomach and upper digestive tract.

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