What is pus? Is it just white blood cells?
What is pus? Is it just white blood cells?.
pus is actually made of dead neutrophils (type of WBCs) which died in their fight against bacteria .
Special type of bacteria called pyogenic are able to produce Leukocidins that kill neutrophils and when neutrophils are dead they release proteolytic enzyme that also liquify the tissue proteins
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