Role of T- and B-lymphocytes in pulmonary host defences

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Pulmonary infectious diseases cause significant morbidity and mortality in both industrialized and developing countries. Adaptive immune responses are required to defend the lung against pathogens that survive in normal macrophages and extracellular organisms that evade phagocytosis. Microbes initiate both innate immune responses and specific adaptive immune responses. Innate immune response molecules regulate...