can anyone confirm whether macrophages can / cannot ingest whole virus infected cells? or is it just Tc / NK that kill viruses ?
Also
My textbook says that Th cells are 100% neccessary to stimulate ploliferation of B cells, but it also says T cells can only detect antigens on antigen presenting cells,
Does this mean that lone antigens / pathogens cannot cause B cells to ploliferate ?
EDIT:
Immunity is confusing me!
another 2 questions
1) exactly how are viruses destroyed and completely eradicated from body, is it by forming antibody virus complexes or by NK / Tc cells stopping them from reproducing or both
2) B cell has a similar (exactly the same) T cell, does this mean if an antigen binds with a B cell, they have to present this to the one correct Th cell and then the Th cell instructs the B cell to proliferate?