A patient has an infected puncture wound to her foot. Which type of white blood cell would you expect to be elevated in a differential white cell count?

The correct answer is: neutrophils.

Neutrophils are a type of white blood cells (granulocytes), part of innate immune response with the role of phagocyte. They appear first during the acute phase of inflammation which is a result of bacterial infection and are first recruited to the site of injury.