Prescott's Microbiology
Prescott's Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 33.6, Problem 1MI
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Important innate defense response to injury of tissue such as that caused by wound or pathogen is called inflammation. An immediate reaction of the body to cell death or injury is called acute inflammation. Example of conditions, a disease that can result in acute inflammation include dermatitis, sinusitis, acute bronchitis, and tonsillitis.

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