KROK 1 2015 – Question 85 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
Parents of a 5-year-old boy report him to have frequent colds that develop into pneumonias, presence of purulent rashes on the skin. Laboratory tests have revealed the following: absence of immunoglobulins of any type, and naked cells are absent from the lymph nodes punctate. What kind of immune disorder is it?
- A. Autosomal recessive agammaglobulinaemia (Swiss type)
- B. X-linked hypogammaglobulinemia (Bruton type agammaglobulinemia)
- C. Hypoplastic anemia
- D. Agranulocytosis
- E. Louis-Barr syndrome
Hint
Ask which arm of immunity fails when no antibody-secreting cells can be found, and why a boy gets recurrent pyogenic infections only after his first months of life.
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