[Anomalous neutrophilic granules in patients with angina and acute respiratory diseases]

Analysis of the informative value of the lysosomal cationic test (LCT) and of the kinetics of neutrophilic nuclear fragmentation helped reveal significant differences in the neutrophil granulocyte morphology and function in the patients with acute bacterial tonsillitis and acute respiratory viral infections. The detected varieties in A granule formation and in cellular ability to lysosomal secretion of cationic proteins allow the employment of LCT in the assessment of the disease severity and in the early differential diagnosis between tonsillitis and acute respiratory diseases.