Article
Inflammation induced by influenza virus impairs innate control of human pneumococcal carriage
2018-06-20
Abstract excerpt
Secondary bacterial pneumonia following influenza infection is a significant cause of mortality worldwide. Upper respiratory tract pneumococcal carriage is important as both determinants of disease and population transmission. The immunological mechanisms that contain pneumococcal carriage are well-studied in mice but remain unclear in humans. Loss of this control of carriage following influenza infection is assoc...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2d063287-af19-5d75-b897-a05895354d4e
- DOI
- 10.1101/347161
