Why are the elderly so susceptible to pneumonia?

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 593-595

  Birjandi, Shirin ^a   Witte, Pamela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; marginal zone; marginal zone B cell; marginal zone macrophage; pneumonia; spleen

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; PNEUMONIA; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPLEEN FUNCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; T LYMPHOCYTE; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 80053376530     PISSN: 17476348     EISSN: 17476356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ers.11.50     Document Type: Review

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