Airway epithelial and early innate immune responses to virus infections

Title: Airway epithelial and early innate immune responses to virus infections
Creator: Hsu, Alan Chen-Yu; Loo, Su-Ling; Fathi Aghdam, Fazeh; Parsons, Kristy; Hansbro, Philip M.; Wark, Peter A. B.
Relation: Human Respiratory Viral Infections p. 29-44
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b16778-5
Publisher: CRC Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2014
Description: Respiratory viruses are important human pathogens due to their propensity to cause disease and their fast transmission rate among humans via aerosols. They are the most common cause of infection and frequently lead to a large burden of illness and increased mortality, as well as high socioeconomic cost. Rapid mutation and transmission rates of viruses such as influenza can cause annual epidemics. This then leads to increased visits to health care workers, elevated use of prescription medicines, increased absenteeism from school or work, and in the very young, old, immune-compromised, and those with underlying morbidities can result in severe and life-threatening infection.
Subject: Respiratory viruses; influenza; airway epithelial
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1063967
Identifier: uon:17439
Identifier: ISBN:9781466583214
Language: eng

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