Article
Balance between protective and pathogenic immune responses to pneumonia in the neonatal lung enforced by gut microbiota
2021-09-27
Abstract excerpt
While modern clinical practices like cesarean sections and perinatal antibiotics have improved infant survival, treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics alters intestinal microbiota and causes dysbiosis. Infants exposed to perinatal antibiotics have an increased likelihood of life-threatening infections, including pneumonia. Here, we investigated how gut microbiota sculpt pulmonary immune responses, promoting rec...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 30ca24ad-95d3-5daa-af91-8f7a679a6d57
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.09.27.461705
