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Repeated respiratory Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in mice: effect of host genetic background.
Microbes and infection - 1 Jun 2006
Chu Hong Wei, Breed Rachel, Rino John G, Harbeck Ronald J, Sills Michael R, Martin Richard J
Abstract excerpt
Respiratory Mycoplasma pneumoniae (Mp) infection is involved in several acute and chronic lung diseases including community-acquired pneumonia, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In the chronic disease process, recurrent respiratory bacterial infections could occur, which may result in varying degrees of symptoms and lung inflammation among patients. However, the lung immunologic differences of...
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