Kit Catbury has decided to take a flight to visit herfriends in New Zealand. Unfortunately, while on the plane for over15 hours, the crazy cat lady that sat next to her decided to letMr. Boots out of his carrier to stretch his legs. Suddenly, Mr.Boots got the \"zoomies†and in the process scratched Kit Catbury.This scratch introduced Bartonella henselae, the bacteriaresponsible for cat scratch fever into her system!
Describe how his adaptive immune system would attempt tofight off a bacterial infection. In your description, you shouldinclude the barriers that are normally in place to fight off thebacteria (2 pts), how the bacteria is initially displayed to theadaptive immune system (2 pts for the cell that does it and 2 ptsfor the receptor used to display the antigen), the type of cellthat recognizes this antigen (2 pts for the type of cell and 2 ptsfor the receptor(s) it uses to interact), how these cells can thenactivate other cells (2 pts), the cells they activate to fight offthe bacterial infection(2 pts) and what they produce to help fightthe infection (2 pts), and finally how those products help fightthe bacteria (there can be multiple ways, provide one)(2pts). 2 ptsfor essay formatting, grammar, spelling.
