Cigarette Smoke Exposure Impairs Pulmonary Bacterial Clearance and Alveolar Macrophage Complement-Mediated Phagocytosis of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Cigarette smoke exposure increases the risk of pulmonary and invasive infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, the most commonly isolated organism from patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Despite this association, the mechanisms by which cigarette smoke exposure diminishes host defense...

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Auteurs principaux: Phipps, John C., Aronoff, David M., Curtis, Jeffrey L., Goel, Deepti, O'Brien, Edmund, Mancuso, Peter
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2010
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Bacterial Infections
Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2825918/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20008540
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/IAI.00963-09
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