A Perfect Storm: Increased Colonization and Failure of Vaccination Leads to Severe Secondary Bacterial Infection in Influenza Virus-Infected Obese Mice

Obesity is a risk factor for developing severe disease following influenza virus infection; however, the comorbidity of obesity and secondary bacterial infection, a serious complication of influenza virus infections, is unknown. To fill this gap in knowledge, lean and obese C57BL/6 mice were infecte...

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Autores principales: Karlsson, Erik A., Meliopoulos, Victoria A., van de Velde, Nicholas C., van de Velde, Lee-Ann, Mann, Beth, Gao, Geli, Rosch, Jason, Tuomanen, Elaine, McCullers, Jon, Vogel, Peter, Schultz-Cherry, Stacey
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5605935/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28928207
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00889-17

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