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Small alveolar macrophages are infected preferentially by HIV and exhibit impaired phagocytic function

HIV-1-infected persons are at higher risk of lower respiratory tract infections than HIV-1-uninfected individuals. This suggests strongly that HIV-infected persons have specific impairment of pulmonary immune responses, but current understanding of how HIV alters pulmonary immunity is incomplete. Al...

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Autores principales: Jambo, K C, Banda, D H, Kankwatira, A M, Sukumar, N, Allain, T J, Heyderman, R S, Russell, D G, Mwandumba, H C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4009066/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24472847
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/mi.2013.127