Study Helps Explain Why Some Ear and Respiratory Infections Become Chronic

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http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2013/11/study-helps-explain-why-some-ear-and-respiratory-infections-become-chronic.aspx

Study Helps Explain Why Some Ear and Respiratory Infections Become Chronic


Scientists have figured out how a bacterium that causes ear and respiratory illnesses is able to elude immune detection in the middle ear, likely contributing to chronic or recurrent infections in adults and children. A team from The Research Institute at Nationwide Children?s Hospital published the findings in a recent issue of PLOS Pathogens and has now received a $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to further the work...