Why whooping cough causes lymphocytosis?!
Question: Why whooping cough causes lymphocytosis?
Answers:
Whooping cough due to infection of tuberculosis bacteria, can cause lymphocytosis. Where the number of lymphocytes (a type of white blood cells) that produced by the body will increased to fight the bacteria, the increasing of lymphocytes is called lymphocytosis.
To help your body fight the disease.
Whooping cough (pertussis) is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis.