Maintaining a normal level of healthy white blood cells can help reduce the risk of infection and is a key component of ...

A low white blood cell count is called leukopenia ... When there are too many white blood cells, they can crowd out healthy cells and disrupt normal function and cell production.

Of 289 patients with bacteremia, 52% had normal WBC count and 17% had neither WBC elevation nor fever. Despite multiple studies showing that a normal white blood cell (WBC) count does not exclude ...