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The lung is a vulnerable organ. Along with the skin and the gut, the lung is at the interface of the sterile body sanctuary and the environment and is thus exposed to numerous agents capable of inflicting injury (Fraire 2008; Berman and Center 1998). These agents include viruses, bacteria and physicochemical factors, against which the lung may respond by eliciting an inflammatory reaction and/or mounting an immune response. This chapter briefly considers the remarkably effective and biologically complex defense mechanisms of the lung, particularly those that apply to viral-associated infections.
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Fraire, A.E., Welsh, R.M. (2014). Lung Defenses. In: Fraire, A., Woda, B., Welsh, R., Kradin, R. (eds) Viruses and the Lung. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40605-8_2
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