Visit this website (http://openstaxcollege.org/l/chemotaxis) to learn about phagocyte chemotaxis Phagocyte chemotaxis is the movement of phagocytesaccording to the secretion of chemical messengers in theform of interleukins and other chemokines. By what meansdoes a phagocyte destroy a bacterium that it has ingested?

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