Insights into the Interaction between Influenza Virus and Pneumococcus

By Jonathan A. McCullers. Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2006

862 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Epidemiology, Immunology

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In Epidemiology

1. D. Morens
2. J. Taubenberger
3. A. Fauci
4. Herbert W. Virgin
5. Ramnik J. Xavier
6. Yijia Lin
7. Samuel H. Cox

In Immunology

1. Herbert W. Virgin

Citations in the corpus

• Virus-Plus-Susceptibility Gene Interaction Determines Crohn’s Disease Gene Atg16L1 Phenotypes in Intestine (2010, background): “as in secondary infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae after influenza (McCullers, 2006).”
• Predominant Role of Bacterial Pneumonia as a Cause of Death in Pandemic Influenza: Implications for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (2008, background): “National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland (See the editorial commentary by McCullers, on pages XXX–XXX.) Background.”
• Viral and Bacterial Interactions in the Upper Respiratory Tract (2013, background): “Although an influenza virus infection alone can be fatal, mortality increases dramatically when a bacterial super-infection occurs, as in the case of the ‘‘Spanish flu’’ pandemic in 1918–1919 when millions of people died, most from secondary pneumococcal pneumonia [38].”