A 6-year-old male is brought to his pediatrician’s office wi…
A 6-year-old male is brought to his pediatrician’s office with chickenpox. He has had symptoms for one week, and his mother is concerned about the patient’s 8-year-old sister because she had a long, painful chickenpox infection 2 years prior. Of note, the patient was not vaccinated against chickenpox because his parents did not think it was a serious enough virus to warrant the pain of the injection. After his recovery from chickenpox, which lymphocytes will keep this patient from becoming infected again?
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A 16-year-old male with a low-grade fever, and large and painful red sores around his lips is being evaluated at a pediatric clinic. He has a PCR test pending that was swabbed from the sores, as well as a blood culture with Gram stain, and nasopharyngeal specimen for microscopic examination. What kind of data will the PCR results provide?
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