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Question 24 1 pts Which of the following statements about mechanisms of evading the immune system is incorrect? O Any mechanism or quality that helps a microbe evade the immune system and infect a host can be called a virulence factor O Many pathogens allow themselves to be phagocytosed by white blood cells before proliferating O Viruses can evade immunity by rapid mutation of their capsid proteins Some non-pathogenic organisms that cannot evade the immune system can become pathogenic if the host's immune function is compromised O Capsules cannot be detected by the immune system

Answer 1

Many pathogens allow themselves to be phagocytosed by white blood cells before proliferating.

Phagocytosis is a means of ingesting the pathogens by macrophages and digesting them, so that they are destroyed and are no longer able to establish infection. Unless a pathogen specifically invades white blood cells, phagocytosis remains one of the immune responses by white blood cells for destruction of pathogen. Hence, the statement given in option 2 is incorrect. All the other statements are correct with regards to immune system.