Respiratory syncytial virus:the possible trigger of airway remodeling through matrix metaUoproteinas

• 出 处: Chinese Medical Journal
• 发表日期: 2007年01期
• 关键词: syncytial remodeling illness airway facilities transplant immunity potentially a

Respiratory syncytial virus(RSV)is a leading cause ofepidemic respiratory tract illness in children.SevereRSV infections involving the lower respiratory tract areprimarily seen in young children with naive immunesystems and/or genetic predispositions.However,RSVwas not recognized as a potentially serious problem inolder adults until the 1970s,when outbreaks of the virusinfection occurred in long-term care facilities.Since then,additional studies in hospitalized adults have suggestedthat RSV may be an important cause of illness incommunity-dwelling elderly people,patients withsuppressed T-cell immunity(such as heart transplant

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause ofepidemic respiratory tract illness in children. SevereRSV infections involving the lower respiratory tract areprimarily seen in young children with naive immunesystems and / or genetic predispositions.However, RSV was not recognized as a potentially serious problem inolder adults until the 1970s, when outbreaks of the virus infection into long-term care facilities .ince then, additional studies in hospitalized adults have suggestedthat RSV may be an important cause of illness incommunity-dwelling elderly people, patients withsuppressed T-cell immunity (such as as heart transplant