Mucosal Immunology of Acute Bacterial Pneumonia - Prince, Alice; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Alveolar macrophages - key coordinators of host defense -- Lung dendritic cells and pulmonary defense mechanisms against bacteria -- CD4 T cell immunity in the lung -- Neutrophil mediated defenses in bacterial pneumonia -- Toll-like receptors in the epithelium -- Type I IFN signaling in bacterial pneumonia -- Transcriptional signaling hubs in epithelial cells during pneumonia.- Innate immune responses in Ventilator Associated Pneumonia -- Streptococcus pneumoniae: The prototype of lung responses in pneumonia -- Staphylococcus aureus infection of the respiratory tract -- Pseudomonas aeruginosa: the consummate opportunistic pathogen of the lung.  .
Keywords: Immunology; Medical microbiology; Infectious diseases; Immunology; Medical Microbiology; Infectious Diseases