The Consequences Of Viral Infections Negatively Impacted By Cigarette Smoke

Jack Elias and colleagues, at Yale University School of Medicine, have performed new studies in mice that provide mechanistic insight into why viral infections have more severe consequences in individuals exposed to cigarette smoke than in those not exposed to cigarette smoke (e.g., influenza-infected smokers have increased mortality when compared with influenza-infected nonsmokers).

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Filed under: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses on July 31st, 2008