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Novel Therapies for Pneumonia-Associated Severe Asthma Phenotypes.
Trends in molecular medicine - 1 Nov 2020
Papanicolaou Angelica, Wang Hao, Satzke Catherine, Vlahos Ross, Wilson Nick, Bozinovski Steven
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Distinct asthma phenotypes are emerging from well-defined cohort studies and appear to be associated with a history of pneumonia. Asthmatics are more susceptible to infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae; however, the mechanisms that underlie defective immunity to this pathogen are still being elucidated. Here, we discuss how alternatively activated macrophages (AAMs) in asthmatics are defective in...
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