Innate Immunity to Pulmonary Infection covers the roles of cells such as neutrophils, macrophages and dendritic cells and of molecular components such as toll-like receptors.

Innate Immunity to Pulmonary Infection provides a comprehensive overview of pulmonary infectious diseases, including:

• basic pathology
• current and potential therapies
• detailed consideration of the innate biological resistance mechanisms in the lung

Contents

• Lung diseases in South Africa: an overview
• TB epidemiology and human genetics
• Bacterial infections of the lung in normal and immunodeficient patients
• Pathogenesis of avian flu H5N1 and SARS
• Immunity and tolerance to Aspergillus fumigatus
• Pentraxins in innate immunity and inflammation
• How superoxide production by neutrophil leukocytes kills microbes
• Linking innate to adaptive immunity through dendritic cells
• Macrophage receptors and innate immunity: insights from dectin-1
• Toll-like receptors and control of mycobacterial infection in mice
• Population of lungs by mast cells
• Innate immunity and mucus structure and function
• Collectins and host defence
• Infections and asthma pathogenesis: a critical role for dendritic cells?
• Innate and adaptive immunity in lung cancer

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