A New Direction in Understanding the Pathogenesis of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis: How Real Infants Suffer | Zendy

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A New Direction in Understanding the Pathogenesis of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis: How Real Infants Suffer

Author(s) -

John P. DeVincenzo

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

the journal of infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.69

H-Index - 252

eISSN - 1537-6613

pISSN - 0022-1899

DOI - 10.1086/512622

Subject(s) - bronchiolitis , pathogenesis , virus , respiratory tract , immunology , respiratory system , medicine , virology , paramyxoviridae , immune system , respiratory tract infections , pneumovirus , biology , viral disease

cine, but a failure to adhere to it may have led to fundamental misunderstandings of the pathogenesis of infant viral lower respiratory tract infections. Viral lower respiratory tract disease, particularly that caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), has long been thought to be the result of an exuberant and aberrant pathogenic immune response. However, a logistically elegant and detailed study of the pathology of fatal infant RSV and influenza infec-

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