Posted: July 24th, 2017

A newborn develops meningitis. Streptococcus is isolated from the mother’s vagina. The organism agglutinates with antiserum directed against type B surface carbohydrate. The virulence of this organism is related to a bacterial constituent that interferes with which of the following host phagocyte functions?

A newborn develops meningitis. Streptococcus is
isolated from the mother’s vagina. The organism
agglutinates with antiserum directed against type
B surface carbohydrate. The virulence of this
organism is related to a bacterial constituent that
interferes with which of the following host
phagocyte functions?
(A) Aggregation
(B) Chemotaxis
(C) Ingestion
(D) Intracellular killing
(E) Pseudopod formation