You will recognize that a patient's infection has existed for about 2 weeks if the WBC differential shows ____. 

A. elevated eosinophils
B. elevated monocytes
C. elevated neutrophils
D. decreased basophils
E. decreased neutrophils

B. elevated monocytes
Monocyte numbers do not increase until about 2 weeks after a bacterial infection begins.

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