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SUBMITTER: Periasamy S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6692884 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Periasamy Sivakumar S Harton Jonathan A JA
The Journal of infectious diseases 20180401 9
Bacterial pneumonia is a common risk factor for acute lung injury and sepsis-mediated death, but the mechanisms underlying the overt inflammation and accompanying pathology are unclear. Infiltration of immature myeloid cells and necrotizing inflammation mediate severe pathology and death during pulmonary infection with Francisella tularensis. However, eliciting mature myeloid cells provides protection. Yet, the host factors responsible for this pathologic immature myeloid cell response are unkno ...[more]