The airway epithelium: soldier in the fight against respiratory viruses

M Vareille, E Kieninger, MR Edwards… - Clinical microbiology …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
The airway epithelium acts as a frontline defense against respiratory viruses, not only as a
physical barrier and through the mucociliary apparatus but also through its immunological …

The human immune response to respiratory syncytial virus infection

CD Russell, SA Unger, M Walton… - Clinical microbiology …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an important etiological agent of respiratory infections,
particularly in children. Much information regarding the immune response to RSV comes …

Respiratory viral infection alters the gut microbiota by inducing inappetence

HT Groves, SL Higham, MF Moffatt, MJ Cox… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Respiratory viral infections are extremely common, but their impacts on the composition and
function of the gut microbiota are poorly understood. We previously observed a significant …

Protective and harmful immunity to RSV infection

PJM Openshaw, C Chiu, FJ Culley… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an exceptional mucosal pathogen. It specializes in
infection of the ciliated respiratory epithelium, causing disease of variable severity with little …

Immunity to RSV in early-life

L Lambert, AM Sagfors, PJM Openshaw… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is the commonest cause of severe respiratory infection in
infants, leading to over 3 million hospitalizations and around 66,000 deaths worldwide each …

Early IL-6 signalling promotes IL-27 dependent maturation of regulatory T cells in the lungs and resolution of viral immunopathology

CJ Pyle, FI Uwadiae, DP Swieboda, JA Harker - PLoS pathogens, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Interleukin-6 is a pleiotropic, pro-inflammatory cytokine that can promote both innate and
adaptive immune responses. In humans with respiratory virus infections, such as …

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and its propensity for causing bronchiolitis

RJ Pickles, JP DeVincenzo - The Journal of pathology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Infants and young children with acute onset of wheezing and reduced respiratory airflows
are often diagnosed with obstruction and inflammation of the small bronchiolar airways, ie …

Contribution of cytokines to tissue damage during human respiratory syncytial virus infection

K Bohmwald, NMS Gálvez… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV) remains one of the leading pathogens causing
acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) in children younger than 2 years old, worldwide …

Integrated relationship of nasopharyngeal airway host response and microbiome associates with bronchiolitis severity

M Fujiogi, Y Raita, M Pérez-Losada, RJ Freishtat… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Bronchiolitis is a leading cause of infant hospitalizations but its immunopathology remains
poorly understood. Here we present data from 244 infants hospitalized with bronchiolitis in a …

Production of chemokines in the lungs of infants with severe respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis

PS McNamara, BF Flanagan, CA Hart… - The Journal of …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Background Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) bronchiolitis in infants is characterized by a
massive neutrophilic infiltrate into the airways. Chemokines direct migration of leukocytes …