What is it about?
Chronic lung disease affects billions of people around the world. Understanding the impact of infection and inflammation on development of the chronic lung injure leading to disease is imperative to increase disease congrol and identifying new treatment strategies.
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Why is it important?
Chronic or protracted infections in the reaspiratory tract has detrimental impact on survival and morbidity. Other infections are just signs of known og unknown immunosuppression. Such infections are opportunistic but do not drive disease burden but are merely indicators of future calamities. Fusobacteria act this way.
Perspectives
A comprehensive overview of Fusobacteria infections - which in adults behave as a peaceful, mostly indolent, colonising the airways but do not cause much disease themselves.
dr Uffe Bodtger
Dep. of Respiratory Medicine, Naestved Hospital
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This page is a summary of: Lemierre’s syndrome: current perspectives on diagnosis and management, Infection and Drug Resistance, September 2016, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/idr.s95050.
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