Infection and Inflammation: Potential Triggers of Sudden Infant Deaths

• मुख्य लेखक: Amanda Cox (auth)
• अन्य लेखक: Eugenie Ruth Lumbers (auth), Caroline Blackwell (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• श्रृंखला: Frontiers Research Topics
• विषय: Medicine; Virus infection; Sudden unexpected death in infancy; sudden infant death syndrome; Stillbirths; cigarette smoke; Risk factors; Animal Models; Mechanisms of Death; sex of infant; interactions between environmental and genetic risk factors
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

सारांश

There is a growing body of evidence that infectious agents or their products contribute to events leading to unexpected infant deaths. This issue summarizes the current information on the interactions between genetic background of the infant, environmental and developmental risk factors, and the microbial flora of the infant that could trigger lethal responses to common infections.

भौतिक वर्णन

1 electronic resource (94 p.)

आईएसबीएन

978-2-88945-049-7
9782889450497

अभिगमन

Open Access